The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the BibleLantern Books, 2002 - 208 sider Many commentators and users of the Bible have, over the centuries and up to the present day, used the Bible to argue that animals have no rights, that they were put on this earth for our use, and that we have no obligations to them. In his cogent, honest, and fully researched and referenced work, The Dominion of Love, Norm Phelps attempts to encourage all who revere the Bible as holy scripture to open their hearts to the suffering that we inflict upon our nonhuman neighbors. He shows that the right of animals not to be imprisoned, harmed, and killed for our benefit flows naturally from the Bible's message of love and compassion and argues that this is the message of the Bible's most important passages dealing with our relationship to animals. He further responds to the defenses of animal exploitation that are often made based on the Bible. Beautifully written, The Dominion of Love is an essential addition to a growing body of literature that argues for a compassionate and non-exploitative reading of Holy Scripture. |
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Animal Rights According to the Bible Norm Phelps. For the pigeons who died at Heginsand for Heidi , who never gave up . Contents Acknowledgments Introduction .... I : An Eternal Treblinka 2.
... never mentioned in the Bible . It was created during the Enlightenment by philosophers looking for a way to ensure that those with power would treat those without power in accord , at least to some degree , with the Golden Rule . After ...
... never be any peace , " he said in the forward to a book on vegetarianism . " There is only one little step from killing animals to creating gas chambers a la Hitler and concentration camps a la Stalin ... There will be no justice as ...
... never occurred to any of us . We had all been corrupted , as had our church , by absolute power . There is an old joke about a preacher who was walking through the woods when a bear jumped out from behind a tree and grabbed him . The ...
... never implies that Christian slave owners should free their slaves as a matter of Christian love , and never suggests that slavery might be an evil institution . One of my forebears was a Baptist minister in rural Tidewater Virginia ...
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The Prime Directives | 33 |
The Image and Likeness of God | 45 |
All Gods Children Go to Heaven | 57 |
The Suffering of the Living | 67 |
Your Hands Are Covered with Blood | 74 |
What Did Jesus Eat? | 125 |
The Sparrow and the Lamb | 137 |
The Gospel of Mercy | 149 |
Does God Care about Oxen? | 155 |
Eat Anything You Want | 169 |
The Dominion of Love | 176 |
Biblical Verses Relating to Human Treatment of Animals | 180 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 193 |
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