On Animals Volume I: Systematic Theology

by Clough, David L.

• ISBN13: 9780567632869
• ISBN10: 0567632865
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-01-02
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

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.

Author Biography

David Clough is Professor of Theological Ethics and Head of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester. His book publications include Ethics in Crisis: Interpreting Barth's Ethics (2005) and Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War (2007) and he co-edited Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Animals (2009) and Animals 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I - Creation

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

Part 2 - Reconciliation

4. Incarnation
5. Atonement

Part 3 - Redemption

6. What is Redeemed?
7. The Shape of Redeemed Creaturely Life

Conclusion