Good News for Animals?: Christian Approaches to Animal Well-being

Charles Robert Pinches, Jay Byrd McDaniel

Orbis Books, 1993 - Nature - 258 pages

Structured by four questions, What has been said about animals in the past?; What is being said about animals today?; Should Christians eat animals?; and How should Christians respond to current concerns about animals?, here are timely and revealing debates from William French, Rosemary Radford Ruehter, John Berkman, Gary Comstock, Andews Linzey, and others.

Contents

• What Has Been Said about Animals in the Past?: 1
• MEN WOMEN AND BEASTS: 12
• BEASTMACHINES AND THE TECHNOCRATIC REDUCTION: 24
• What Is Being Said about Animals Today?: 45
• A TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF THE CHIEF END OF ALL: 62
• A GOD WHO LOVES ANIMALS AND A CHURCH THAT DOES: 75
• Should Christians Eat Animals?: 103
• FEEDING ON GRACE: 142
• How Should Christians Respond to Current Concerns: 161
• ECONOMICS FOR ANIMALS AS WELL AS PEOPLE: 172
• EACH ACCORDING TO ITS KIND: 187
• CHRISTIANITY AND THE OPPRESSION OF ANIMALS: 206
• Appendix A THE STATE OF THE ANIMALS: 221
• Appendix B LIBERATING LIFE: 235
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 253

Bibliographic information

• Title: Good News for Animals?: Christian Approaches to Animal Well-being; Ecology and justice : an Orbis series on global ecology; Ecology and justice
• Editors: Charles Robert Pinches, Jay Byrd McDaniel
• Publisher: Orbis Books, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 8, 2009
• ISBN: 0883448661, 9780883448663
• Length: 258 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animal Rights; Nature / Animals / General; Religion / Christian Living / General; Religion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources; Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics; Religion / General