Table of Contents:
  • Part. I. Historical approaches
  • ch. 1. Towards a Thomistic theology of animality / John Berkman
  • ch. 2. The anxiety of the human animal : Martin Luther on non-human animals and human animality / David Clough
  • ch. 3. Animals in Orthodox iconography / Esther D. Reed
  • Part II. Systematic approaches
  • ch. 4. The redemption of animals in an incarnational theology / Denis Edwards
  • ch. 5. The way of all flesh : rethinking the Imago Dei / David S. Cunningham
  • Part III. Hermeneutical approaches
  • ch. 6. The question of the creature : animals, theology and Levinas' dog / Aaron S. Gross
  • ch. 7. The animals we write on : encountering animals in texts / Rachel Muers
  • ch. 8. Elves, hobbits, trolls and talking beasts / Stephen R.L. Clark
  • Part IV. The moral status of animals
  • ch. 9. Slouching towards Jerusalem? : an anti-human theology of rough beasts and other animals / Peter Manley Scott
  • ch. 10. Are animals moral? : taking soundings through vice, virtue, conscience and imago dei / Celia Deane-Drummond
  • ch. 11. Humans, animals, evolution and ends / Neil Messer
  • Part V. Ecological perspectives
  • ch. 12. 'They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain' (Isaiah 65.25) : killing for philosophy and a creaturely theology of non-violence / Michael Northcott
  • ch. 13. The new days of Noah? : assisted migration as an ethical imperative in an era of climate change / Christopher Southgate.