Animal Theologians
Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have some of the most celebrated religious thinkers. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Animals
/ Creation
/ Theology
/ Protection of animals ethics
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| Further subjects: | B
Spiritual Life
B Animals-Religious aspects B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have some of the most celebrated religious thinkers. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions. Cover -- Animal Theologians -- Copyright -- By the same editors -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Before Animal Theology -- PART I PROPHETS AND PIONEERS -- 1. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655): Vegetarianism and the Beatific Vision -- 2. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): Elephant Theologians -- 3. Thomas Tryon (1634-1703): A Theology of Animal Enslavement -- 4. John Wesley (1703-1791): The Tension between Theological Hope and Biological Reality -- 5. Humphry Primatt (1735-1777): Animal Protection and Its Revolutionary Contexts -- 6. William Bartram (1739-1823): A Quaker-Inspired Animal Advocacy -- 7. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): Capturing the Anima in Animals -- PART II SOCIAL SENSIBILITY -- 8. John Ruskin (1819-1900): "Beholding Birds"-A Visual Case against Vivisection -- 9. Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904): Theology, Science, and the Antivivisection Movement -- 10. Frank Buckland (1826-1880) and Henry Parry Liddon (1829-1890): Vivisection in Oxford -- 11. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910): Literature and the Lives of Animals -- 12. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911): Writer and Reformer -- 13. Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849-1905): The Transvaal Fatwa and the Fate of Animals -- 14. Josiah Oldfield (1863-1953): Vegetarianism and the Order of the Golden Age in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 15. Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935): Biblical Ethics as the Basis of Rav Kook's A Vision of Vegetarianism and Peace -- 16. Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948): In the Service of All That Lives -- PART III DEEPER PROBING -- 17. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965): The Life of Reverence -- 18. Martin Buber (1878-1965): Encountering Animals, a Prelude to the Animal Question -- 19. Paul Tillich (1886-1965): The Method of Correlation and the Possibility of an Animal Ethic. |
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| ISBN: | 0197655572 |