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Good News for Animals?: Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being
Structured by four questions, What has been said about animals in the past?; What is being said about animals today?; Should Christians eat animals?; and How should Christians respond to current concerns about animals?, here are timely and revealing debates from William French, Rosemary Radford Ruehter, John Berkman, Gary Comstock, Andews Linzey, and others.
258 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1993
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November 22, 2025
This book is both very dense and heavy to read- especially in light of how bad humans have treated animals. This book was written a while ago (early 1990s) so some of the information is dated.
But overall a good resource for considering the theology of human/animal interaction, including some good pushback on ideas between the contributing authors.
FYI the perspectives in this book are mainly from more "liberal" (ie not Young Earth Creationists) mainline Protestant writers. There was at least one article written from an expressly African-American perspective. Also, an article by feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Reuther. While I generally agreed with the authors perspectives or conclusions, many times I expected the author to make a stronger case in favor of his/her perspective than what I got. Still, the book has given me a robust lexicon and framework for discussing the issues of animal ethics from a theological perspective.
It took me close to5 years to get through this entire book; reading about how badly humans treat animals could weigh on me at times. So I'd often set the book down for months at a time.
But overall a good resource for considering the theology of human/animal interaction, including some good pushback on ideas between the contributing authors.
FYI the perspectives in this book are mainly from more "liberal" (ie not Young Earth Creationists) mainline Protestant writers. There was at least one article written from an expressly African-American perspective. Also, an article by feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Reuther. While I generally agreed with the authors perspectives or conclusions, many times I expected the author to make a stronger case in favor of his/her perspective than what I got. Still, the book has given me a robust lexicon and framework for discussing the issues of animal ethics from a theological perspective.
It took me close to5 years to get through this entire book; reading about how badly humans treat animals could weigh on me at times. So I'd often set the book down for months at a time.
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