Creaturely theology
Subtitle: on God, humans and other animals
By: [edited by] Celia Deane-Drummond and David Clough
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780334041894
Subjects: Kongressbericht; Animals; Christentum; Theologie; Theological anthropology; Animal welfare; Christianity; Tiere; Congresses
Description: 'Creaturely Theology' is a scholarly collection of essays that map out the agenda for the future study of the theology and ethics of the non-human and the post-human.
Notes: Contributions are from a colloquium "Towards a theology of the animal : systematic, scientific and ethical perspectives" held at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 2-4 November 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part. I. Historical approaches; title: ch. 1. Towards a Thomistic theology of animality / John Berkman; title: ch. 2. The anxiety of the human animal : Martin Luther on non-human animals and human animality / David Clough; title: ch. 3. Animals in Orthodox iconography / Esther D. Reed; title: Part II. Systematic approaches; title: ch. 4. The redemption of animals in an incarnational theology / Denis Edwards; title: ch. 5. The way of all flesh : rethinking the imago dei / David S. Cunningham; title: Part III. Hermeneutical approaches; title: ch. 6. The question of the creature : animals, theology and Levinas' dog / Aaron S. Gross; title: ch. 7. The animals we write on : encountering animals in texts / Rachel Muers; title: ch. 8. Elves, hobbits, trolls and talking beasts / Stephen R.L. Clark; title: Part IV. The moral status of animals; title: ch. 9. Slouching towards Jerusalem? : an anti-human theology of rough beasts and other animals / Peter Manley Scott; title: ch. 10. Are animals moral? : taking soundings through vice, virtue, conscience and imago dei / Celia Deane-Drummond; title: ch. 11. Humans, animals, evolution and ends / Neil Messer; title: Part V. Ecological perspectives; title: ch. 12. 'They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain' (Isaiah 65.25) : killing for philosophy and a creaturely theology of non-violence / Michael Northcott; title: ch. 13. The new days of Noah? : assisted migration as an ethical imperative in an era of climate change / Christopher Southgate; title: Postscript / David Clough and Celia Deane-Drummond.