Review of Copan and Jamison, What Would Jesus Really Eat?: A Review Essay
Paul Copan and Wes Jamison's recent book, What Would Jesus Really Eat?, attempts to offer moral and theological vindication for the factory farm industry and, more generally, for eating animals. It thereby aims to provide "comfort" for Christians to "overlook animal suffering&quo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Evangelical Philosophical Society
2023
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Philosophia Christi
Year: 2023, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-103 |
| Review of: | What would Jesus really eat? (Ontario : Castle Quay Books, 2019$u978-1-9889-2817-3) (Ballivian, Joel) |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | Paul Copan and Wes Jamison's recent book, What Would Jesus Really Eat?, attempts to offer moral and theological vindication for the factory farm industry and, more generally, for eating animals. It thereby aims to provide "comfort" for Christians to "overlook animal suffering" and, if they choose, to continue eating factory-farmed meat. In this review, I argue that various key arguments in the book rest on questionable premises and elide relevant distinctions. As a result the key thesis of the book - that Christians are permitted to eat meat, including from factory farms - has not been vindicated over against arguments to the contrary. I finish by offering a few strategies for pursuing a more conscientious diet and suggest that Christian philosophers can do more to serve the aims of conscientious consumption. |
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| ISSN: | 2640-2580 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/pc20232517 |