On Animals Volume I Systematic Theology [Hardcover]

This volume is a project in systematic theology: a rigorous engagement with the Christian tradition in relation to animals under the doctrinal headings of creation, reconciliation and redemption and in dialogue with the Bible and theological voices central to the tradition. The book shows that such engagement with the tradition with the question of the animal in mind produces surprising answers that challenge modern anthropocentric assumptions. For the most part, therefore, the novelty of the project lies in the questions raised, rather than the proposal of innovative answers to it. The transformation in our thinking about animals for which the book argues results in the main from looking squarely for the first time at the sum of what we are already committed to believing about other animals and their place in God's creation.

There is no more important treatment of ethical questions than David Cloughs two-volume workOn Animals(Bloomsbury), which he completed last year. The first volume,Systematic Theology, offers a clear-minded theological account of the interconnectedness of all things. The second,Theological Ethics, presents a series of proposals on what those interconnections require of us. Clough seems to have thought through every possible question from every possible angle... -The Christian CenturyDavid L. Cloughis Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chester, UK. His book publications includeEthics in Crisis: Interpreting Barth's Ethics(2005) andFaith and Force: A Christian Debate about War(2007) and he co-editedCreaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Animals(2009) andAnimals as Religious Subjects(2013). Many of his articles are available via the University of Chester Open Access Repository, and you can also follow him on Twitter.

Introduction

Part I - Creation

1. The End of Creation
2. The Place of Animals
3. Animal Difference

Part 2 - Reconcilc/