Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter: Divine Attributes and Suffering Animals in Historical Perspective 1600-1961 (Studies in the History of Church and Theology, 5) - Hardcover

Slootweg, Piet

9789492701367: Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter: Divine Attributes and Suffering Animals in Historical Perspective 1600-1961 (Studies in the History of Church and Theology, 5)

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ISBN 10: 9492701367 ISBN 13: 9789492701367

Verlag: Amsterdam University Press, 2022

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Is a life cycle that depends on eating or being eaten compatible with a creation in which 'the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork'? Are animal death and extinction manifestations of a good God's majesty and power? When creating the world, did God use animal death and extinction as a means to realize his intentions? This study challenges the view that the emergence and acceptance of the theory of evolution brought a break in thinking about animal suffering in a good creation. Even before Darwin, people thought about animal suffering, about how God's goodness and good creation related to this, and about whether animals were already subject to death in paradise. Historically, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution did not form a watershed in the debate about animal suffering, nor did concerns about animal suffering only emerge with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

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Piet Slootweg (1950) was Professor of Pathology at the Utrecht University Medical Center and the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen. After his retirement, he investigated the background to the shifting opinions about the relationship between the Creator and creation, resulting in a PhD at VU Amsterdam.

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Is a life cycle that depends on eating or being eaten compatible with a creation in which ‘the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the fi rmament proclaims His handiwork’? Are animal death and extinction manifestations of a good God’s majesty and power? When creating the world, did God use animal death and extinction as a means to realize his intentions? This study challenges the view that the emergence and acceptance of the theory of evolution brought a break in thinking about animal suffering in a good creation. Even before Darwin, people thought about animal suffering, about how God’s goodness and good creation related to this, and about whether animals were already subject to death in paradise. Historically, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution did not form a watershed in the debate about animal suffering, nor did concerns about animal suffering only emerge with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

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