Animal Theologians 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0197655572
• ISBN-13: 9780197655573
• Author: Andrew Linzey; Clair Linzey

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some of the most celebrated religious thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and Paul Tillich. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions. The editors have brought together Jewish, Unitarian, Christian, transcendentalist, Muslim, Hindu, Dissenting, deist, and Quaker voices, each offering a unique theological perspective that counters the neglect of the nonhuman.Animal Theologians is divided into three parts starting with the pioneers who first saw a relationship between animals and divinity, those who contributed to the expansion of social sensibility to animals, and ending with the work of contemporary theologians. The essays in this volume use contextual and historical background to describe what led animal theologians to their beliefs, and then pave way for further developments in this expanding field. This volume is an act of reclaiming different religious traditions for animals by recovering lost voices.

Table contents:

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 ʿAbduh (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

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