Christian theology and the status of animals : the dominant tradition and its alternatives /
What is the moral standing of animals according to Christian theology? In this book, Ryan Patrick McLaughlin argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to this question. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources that ought to be equitably distributed to the...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
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Table of Contents:
- Thomas Aquinas and the dominant tradition
- The dominant tradition and the magisterium
- Theology and the reconfiguration of difference
- In via toward an animal-inclusive eschaton
- Breaking with anthropocentrism : Genesis 1
- Breaking with conservationism : Isaiah 11:1-9
- The sacramentality of the cosmos
- Alternative traditions and interreligious dialogue.