Developing Animal Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing Animal Theology write by Clair Linzey. This book was released on 2021-10-27. Developing Animal Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an up-to-date examination of the nature and development of animal theology. It considers what animal theology is and how it challenges, and is challenged by, liberation and ecological theology. At the heart of the work is a critical engagement with the Brazilian ecotheologian Leonardo Boff. Clair Linzey addresses ideas that originate from the papal encyclical Laudato Si’ and considers how Pope Francis is developing an animal friendly tradition within Catholicism. Exploring new vistas in animal theology, this volume makes a valuable to contribution to debates on how religion should be concerned with animals and the environment. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know the current state of debate with animal theology and its effects on the wider Christian community.
Developing Animal Theology
Developing Animal Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing Animal Theology write by Clair Susan Linzey. This book was released on 2020. Developing Animal Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Animal Theology
Animal Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animal Theology write by Andrew Linzey. This book was released on 1995. Animal Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Animal rights is animal theology. The author argues that historical theology, creatively defined, must reject humanocentricity. He questions the assumption that if theology is to speak on this issue, 'it must only do so on the side of the oppressors.' His theological query investigates not only the abstractions of theory, but also the realities of hunting, animal experimentation, and genetic engineering. He is an important, pioneering, Christian voice speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Creatures of the Same God
Creatures of the Same God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creatures of the Same God write by Andrew Linzey. This book was released on 2009. Creatures of the Same God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "I don't know why you're spending all your time on this. They're only animals--for heaven's sake " That was the reaction of one of Andrew Linzey's fellow students at King's College, London, when he was studying theology in the 1970s. Since then, the now Rev. Dr. Andrew Linzey has been arguing that animals aren't only anything, but rather that they matter to God, and should do so to us. In this collection of essays, Linzey counters with his customary wit, erudition, and insight, some contemporary (and perhaps surprising) challenges to animal rights--from ecotheologians, the Church, and politicians. He contends that far from the sometimes shallow judgments of those who think animals unworthy of theological consideration, the Christian tradition has a wellspring of sources and resources available to taking animals seriously. Instead of being marginal to the Christian experience, Linzey concludes, animals can take their rightful place alongside human beings as creatures of the same God. There is a long forgotten spiritual tradition that two children, both named Jesus, were born in Bethlehem to two sets of parents named Joseph and Mary. This tradition is supported by the different accounts of the nativity and life of Jesus Christ in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Although the Church chose to ignore this tradition, something of it survived in early Christian art and symbolism. The full tradition was preserved only in the literature of esoteric sects such as Gnosticism, which remained outside the official teachings of institutionalized Christianity.
All God's Animals
All God's Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All God's Animals write by Christopher Steck, SJ. This book was released on 2019-10-01. All God's Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is the first of its kind to draw together in conversation the views of the early Church, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, and post-conciliar teachings. Steck develops a comprehensive, Catholic theology of animals based on an in-depth exploration of Catholicism's fundamental doctrines—trinitarian theology, Christology, pneumatology, eschatology, and soteriology. All God's Animals makes two central claims. First, we can hope that God will include animals of the present age in the kingdom inaugurated by Christ. Second, because of this inclusion, our responses to animals should be guided by the values of the kingdom. As Christians await the final liberation of all creation, they are to be witnesses to God’s kingdom by embodying its ideals in their relations with animal life. Because the kingdom's fullness is yet to come and because our world remains marked by the wounds of sin, however, Christian treatment of animals will at times require acts that are at odds with the kingdom’s ideals (for example, those causing suffering and death). Steck examines each of these ideas and explores all of their complexities.
