Good News for Animals?: Contemporary Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being

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Structured by four questions, "What has been said about animals in the past?"; "What is being said about animals today?"; "Should Christians eat animals?"; and "How should Christians respond to current concerns about animals?", here are timely and revealing debates from William French, Rosemary Radford Ruehter, John Berkman, Gary Comstock, Andews Linzey, and others.
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Structured by four questions, "What has been said about animals in the past?"; "What is being said about animals today?"; "Should Christians eat animals?"; and "How should Christians respond to current concerns about animals?", here are timely and revealing debates from William French, Rosemary Radford Ruehter, John Berkman, Gary Comstock, Andews Linzey, and others.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780883448663
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • Publication date: 3/28/1993
  • Series: Ecology and Justice Series
  • Pages: 250
  • Product dimensions: 6.48 (w) x 9.59 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
I What Has Been Said about Animals in the Past?: The Western Christian Legacy 1
1 Caring for Animals: Biblical Stimulus for Ethical Reflection 3
2 Men, Women, and Beasts: Relations to Animals in Western Culture 12
3 Beast-Machines and the Technocratic Reduction of Life: A Creation-Centered Perspective 24
II What Is Being Said about Animals Today?: Constructive Efforts to Include Animals in Christian Vision 45
4 Animals in Christian Perspective: Strangers, Friends, or Kin? 47
5 A Trinitarian Theology of the "Chief End" of "All Flesh" 62
6 A God Who Loves Animals and a Church That Does the Same 75
III Should Christians Eat Animals?: Three Arguments for Vegetarianism 103
7 Pigs and Piety: A Theocentric Perspective on Food Animals 105
8 The Vampires Dilemma: Animal Rights and Parasitical Nature 28
9 Feeding on Grace: Institutional Violence, Christianity, and Vegetarianism 142
IV How Should Christians Respond to Current Concerns for Animals?: Theoretical and Practical Considerations 161
10 African-American Resources for a More Inclusive Liberation Theology 163
11 Economics for Animals As Well As People 172
12 Each According to Its Kind: A Defense of Theological Speciesism 187
13 Christianity and the Oppression of Animals 206
Appendix A. The State of the Animals: Human Impact on Wild and Domestic Animals 221
Appendix B. Liberating Life: A Report to the World Council of Churches 235
Bibliography 253
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