“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
“I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in the Creator and in the gospel of the crucified. After all, similarly remarkable things have happened, for example, the growing consensus among churches that the environment should be cared for and protected as a Christian duty--an astonishing turnaround when one considers the prevailing dualism in previous centuries, which expressly discouraged concern for "earthly" matters as distinct from "spiritual" ones.” ShouldLooksMatterChristianSpiritualBeliefChurchAnimalEnvironmentGrowingHappenedCenturyExampleDutyConcernCreatorProtectionCelebrateRemarkableHonourProtectedConsensusDiscouragedImperativesAstonishingPrevailingDualismTurnaround Author:Andrew Linzey
“Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.” YearsMindIdeasAgeWantedChristianParentReligiousDutyCreatorCaringPriestsVegetarianTeensRecallsLooking BackPreciseFamily And FriendsLiving ThingsMistFourteenCaring For OthersMirthProvokedReligious ExperienceIncredulity Author:Andrew Linzey
