Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Towards a Christian Animal Ethics Chapter 2: Using Other Animals for Food Chapter 3: Using Other Animals for Clothing and Textiles Chapter 4: Using Other Animals for Labour Chapter 5: Using Other Animals for Research, Medicine and Education Chapter 6: Using Other Animals for Sport and Entertainment Chapter 7: Other Animals as Companions and Pets Chapter 8: Human Impacts on Wild Animals Conclusion Bibliography Index of Biblical References Index of Authors and Subjects
This second volume expands Clough's thought in On Animals Volume I about the place of animals in Christian doctrine to comment on the implications of accepting animals into the Christian world-view.
David Clough is Professor of Theological Ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester, UK.
CLOUGH’S BOOK IS crisply written, fast reading, and impressively
filled with meticulously researched statistics on human use of
domestic animals and human impact upon wild animals and
ecosystems.
*Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology*
This finished work now makes Clough the undisputed leader of the
red-hot field of Christian animal ethics … It is an absolute
triumph. Now the undisputed seminal text in the field, it will
likely stay that way for years (and maybe decades) to come.
*Reading Religion*
There is no more important treatment of ethical questions than
David Clough’s two-volume work On 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 Century*
Clough has done an enormous service to the Christian community -
and to animal advocates - by developing theological objections to
the status quo. On Animals is a major accomplishment, and I hope
that it gets the attention it deserves.
*Metapsychology*
Without doubt the finest and most extensive and comprehensively
argued work on the theological ethics of animals produced by a
Christian ethicist to date.
*Animal Welfare*
Readers of Volume One of David Clough’s massive work, On Animals,
will definitely not be disappointed with Volume Two. In both, his
concern is with relationships between human and non-human animals.
In the first volume, he probes a systematic theological
understanding of doctrinal foundations embedded in creation,
reconciliation, and redemption. In this second volume, he frames a
critical Christian theological ethic aimed at benefitting both
humans and other animals in relation to humans. Clough’s reach is
astonishing–including humans’ need or want for food, help in labor,
desire for entertainment, companionship, clothing, medical
research, impact on wild animals, and the whole in relation to God.
Most important to Clough is genuine human concern for Christians to
take seriously the treatment of non-human animals. This yields
radical implications for human and Christian practice, especially
(though not solely) regarding food. I have seen no other writings
that offer such a broad as well as deep overview of what humans are
doing to other animals, or what they could do better for their
animal neighbors throughout the world.
*Margaret A. Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of
Christian Ethics, Yale University Divinity School, USA*
On Animals I and II together represent the most significant
Christian theological and ethical treatment of animals in the
history of Christian ethics as an academic discipline. David
Clough's devastating analysis of the systematic human mistreatment
of animals, especially in the food industry, will have a
revolutionary impact, not just on an academic field but on lived
Christian behavior -- including my own. Every so often a book is
produced that sets the standard for all other work in a field. This
is one of those books.
*David P. Gushee, Mercer University and President of the American
Academy of Religion, USA*
David Clough’s much anticipated new volume picks up where he left
off in volume one, redefining the very nature of systematic
theology, and giving us new eyes to see not only theology but also
God’s world. No theologian writing today has a deeper or richer
understanding of what it means to be a co-creature than Clough. He
is our most able theological guide in thinking about animals, food,
and the built environment and this text (along with volume 1) is a
redefining moment for how we should teach theology and hopefully a
redefining moment for how we should live in the world with our
animal-kin.
*Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School, USA*
David Clough’s On Animals is indisputably the most important and
comprehensive theological treatment of animals to have appeared in
any language at any time in the Christian tradition.
*Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK*
David Clough develops a careful, thorough, and robust Christian
ethics offering an invitational vision for relationships with other
animals that is inclusive and non-exploitative. This remarkable and
invaluable study will be the definitive work on the subject for
many years.
*Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and Protest
Kitchen (Continuum, 1999), USA*
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