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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... Suffering of the Living ..... 8 : Your Hands Are Covered with Blood . 9 : They Shall Be Yours for Food 10 : Fish Stories II : What Did Jesus Eat ? 12 : The Sparrow and the Lamb 13 : The Gospel of Mercy 14 : Does God Care about Oxen ? 15 ...
... suffering that we inflict upon our nonhuman neighbors . I approach this task in three ways . First , by showing that the right of animals not to be imprisoned , tortured , and killed for our benefit flows natu- rally from the Bible's ...
... suffering , in much the same ways that we do . No one who has shared his or her life with a dog , a cat , or a bird ... suffer from our cruelty and benefit from our kindness . The Bible teaches kindness and condemns cruelty . It doesn't ...
... suffer at our hands demonstrates the wisdom of the Catholic historian Lord Acton , who said , " Power tends to corrupt , and absolute power corrupts absolutely . " Our power over animals is so total and universal that we are hardly ...
... suffering and death of the lamb , the chicken , or the pig as if we had wielded the bloody knife ourselves . The innocent animal was killed to satisfy our appetite . If no one bought the meat , the milk , and the eggs , no one would ...
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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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