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Animal theologians /

"Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But some have, and they have been among some of the most celebrated religious thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Linzey, Andrew (Editor), Linzey, Clair (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Animals > Religious aspects.
Spiritual life.
Animaux > Aspect religieux.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY.
Censorship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Theology.
RELIGION.
Animals > Religious aspects
Spiritual life
Religion & beliefs.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Animal Theologians
  • Copyright
  • By the same editors
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction: Before Animal Theology
  • PART I PROPHETS AND PIONEERS
  • 1. Pierre Gassendi (1592-​1655): Vegetarianism and the Beatific Vision
  • 2. Michel de Montaigne (1533-​1592): Elephant Theologians
  • 3. Thomas Tryon (1634-​1703): A Theology of Animal Enslavement
  • 4. John Wesley (1703-​1791): The Tension between Theological Hope and Biological Reality
  • 5. Humphry Primatt (1735-​1777): Animal Protection and Its Revolutionary Contexts
  • 6. William Bartram (1739-​1823): A Quaker-​Inspired Animal Advocacy
  • 7. Henry David Thoreau (1817-​1862): Capturing the Anima in Animals
  • PART II SOCIAL SENSIBILITY
  • 8. John Ruskin (1819-​1900): "Beholding Birds"-​A Visual Case against Vivisection
  • 9. Frances Power Cobbe (1822-​1904): Theology, Science, and the Antivivisection Movement
  • 10. Frank Buckland (1826-​1880) and Henry Parry Liddon (1829-​1890): Vivisection in Oxford
  • 11. Leo Tolstoy (1828-​1910): Literature and the Lives of Animals
  • 12. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-​1911): Writer and Reformer
  • 13. Muḥammad ʻAbduh (1849-​1905): The Transvaal Fatwa and the Fate of Animals
  • 14. Josiah Oldfield (1863-​1953): Vegetarianism and the Order of the Golden Age in Nineteenth-​Century Britain
  • 15. Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-​1935): Biblical Ethics as the Basis of Rav Kook's A Vision of Vegetarianism and Peace
  • 16. Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-​1948): In the Service of All That Lives
  • PART III DEEPER PROBING
  • 17. Albert Schweitzer (1875-​1965): The Life of Reverence
  • 18. Martin Buber (1878-​1965): Encountering Animals, a Prelude to the Animal Question
  • 19. Paul Tillich (1886-​1965): The Method of Correlation and the Possibility of an Animal Ethic.
  • 20. Charles Hartshorne (1897-​2000): Animals in Process Thought
  • 21. C. S. Lewis (1898-​1963): Rethinking Dominion
  • 22. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-​1991): "Myriads of Cows and Fowls . . . Ready to Take Revenge"
  • 23. Jürgen Moltmann (1926-​): Creation and Sabbath Theology
  • 24. Andrew Linzey (1952-​): Animal Theology
  • Index.