“Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.” SelfLawEducationBeautyMoralCreativityVirtueCreationMoralityFindingsObedienceIntuitiveCultivatingMoral Education Author:Andrew Linzey
“For if animals are God's creatures, we have no absolute rights over them, only the duty to look after them as God would look after them. To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are to honor life for the sake of the Lord of life.” IfsLooksJesusAnimalViewsLordRightsCreationDutyHonorCreaturesAbsolutesSakeRejects Book:Animal Gospel Source: Animal Gospel
“Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.” HumansMeanDoeMadeCareAnimalCreationTreasureDominionDespotismHebrew Author:Andrew Linzey
“When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.” PeopleThinkingBelievePersonsFactsHappensI BelieveReligiousAnimalRightsCreationCreaturesConcernConcernedAll ThingsSeriesCreatorI Believe InPrimariesImpulseBelieve In GodAnimal RightsTeensSensitivityI Believe In GodReligious Experience Author:Andrew Linzey
“Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.” ShouldHumansMayChristianUnderstandingAnimalMoralCreativeCreationBedArgumentTraditionSeedsPartnersTheologyLiberationAnimal RightsAnimal LiberationAnimal LifeGod's CreationChristian TheologyExclusivity Book:Christianity and the Rights of Animals Source: Christianity and the Rights of Animals
