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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... teaching . 2. Animal rights — Biblical teaching . 3. Animal welfare — Religious aspects — Christianity . 4.Animal rights — Religious aspects — Christianity . I. Title . BS680.A5 P48 2002 241'.693 — dc21 2002004105 You shall love your ...
... me throughout the ordeal that is writing a book . Finally , I want to acknowledge three remarkable individuals who have touched my life in ways that led to this book . Theresa Olson was my high school English teacher . An xi ...
... teacher . An adherent of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of reverence for life , she was the first ethical vegetarian I had ever met . In the frightened and narrow - minded world of the 1950s , hers was a lonely stand on behalf of ...
... as essential to putting the Bible's ethical teachings to work in the world . Like human rights , animal rights can be understood as a response to the Bible's challenge to express the love and compassion of 2 The Dominion of Love.
... teach that God approves of cruelty committed against God's most vulnerable children . If you suggest that perhaps God would not care to be portrayed as a the Commandant of history's largest and longest - enduring death camp , our rabbis ...
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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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