Living with Other Creatures

2012
 |  Animals
Living with Other Creatures

Author: Richard Bauckham

Publisher: Paternoster Publishing

ISBN: 1842277405

Category: Animals

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Richard Bauckham offers a fresh approach to the relationship between humanity and creation and our responsibility before God to steward wisely. The volume offers fresh, often innovative approaches to a wide range of the issues that arise in relating the Bible and Christian theology to the ecological concerns of our contemporary world. It aims t...

letters to the void and other creatures

2019-03-22
 |  Poetry
letters to the void and other creatures

Author: Alexa Cherniak

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9780359518050

Category: Poetry

Page: 108

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"letters to the void and other creatures" is a short collection of poetry that goes through four stages - falling, loving, hurting, and rebirth.

Living Theodrama

2014-04-28
 |  Religion
Living Theodrama

Author: Dr Wesley Vander Lugt

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 9781472419439

Category: Religion

Page: 257

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A fresh, creative introduction to theological ethics. Offering an imaginative approach through dialogue with theatrical theory and practice, Vander Lugt demonstrates a new way to integrate actor-oriented and action-oriented approaches to Christian ethics within a comprehensive theodramatic model. This model affirms that life is a drama performed in the company of God and others, providing rich metaphors for relating theology to everyday formation and performance in this drama. This book contains not only a fruitful exchange between theological ethics and theatre, but it also presents a promising method for interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and the arts that will be valuable for students and practitioners across many different fields.

A Faith Embracing All Creatures

2012-11-09
 |  Religion
A Faith Embracing All Creatures

Author: Tripp York

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781621894773

Category: Religion

Page: 212

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What is the purpose of animals? Didn't God give humans dominion over other creatures? Didn't Jesus eat lamb? These are the kinds of questions that Christians who advocate compassion toward other animals regularly face. Yet Christians who have a faith-based commitment to care for other animals through what they eat, what they wear, and how they live with other creatures are often unsure how to address these biblically and theologically based challenges. In A Faith Embracing All Creatures, authors from various denominational, national, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds wrestle with the text, theology, and tradition to explain the roots of their desire to live peaceably with their nonhuman kin. Together, they show that there are no easy answers on "what the Bible says about animals." Instead, there are nuances and complexities, which even those asking these questions may be unaware of. Editors Andy Alexis-Baker and Tripp York have gathered a collection of essays that wrestle with these nuances and tensions in Scripture around nonhuman animals. In so doing, they expand the discussion of nonviolence, peacemaking, and reconciliation to include the oft-forgotten other members of God's good creation.

Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature

2017-08-07
 |  Literary Criticism
Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature

Author: Rebecca Ann Bach

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317203674

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 216

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This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures were categorized hierarchically. However, post-Cartesian readings of Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature have misunderstood Renaissance hierarchical creaturely relations, including human relations. Using critical animal studies work and new materialist theory, Bach argues that attending closely to creatures and objects in texts by Shakespeare and other writers exposes this unequal world and the use and abuse of creatures, including people. The book also adds significantly to animal studies by showing how central bird sociality and voices were to Renaissance human culture, with many believing that birds were superior to some humans in song, caregiving, and companionship. Bach shows how Descartes, a central figure in the transition to modern ideas about creatures, lived isolated from humans and other creatures and denied ancient knowledge about other creatures’ minds, especially bird minds. As significantly, Bach shows how and why Descartes’ ideas appealed to human grandiosity. Asking how Renaissance categorizations of creatures differ so much from modern classifications, and why those modern classifications have shaped so much animal studies work, this book offers significant new readings of Shakespeare’s and other Renaissance texts. It will contribute to a range of fields, including Renaissance literature, history, animal studies, new materialism, and the environmental humanities.

Apple in Dream Land

2021-12-30
 |  Fiction
Apple in Dream Land

Author: D Elangovan

Publisher: Notion Press

ISBN: 9781685866488

Category: Fiction

Page: 242

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It’s a romantic and thriller novel. English and Apple are the starrers (main characters) of this novel. English is 21 years old, and Apple is 18. Both became lovers in a forest-like area near Hyde Park. Both English and Apple have been kidnapped by aliens to an unknown planet. And they escaped from them and returned to earth. The earth then has no water, air and living beings. Meanwhile, the lifespan of the sun came to an end, and thus became a red giant. The red giant engulfs the entire earth at a faster pace. Both English and Apple try to escape the power of the red giant. The climax of the story follows then.

Fellow Creatures

2018-06-18
 |  Philosophy
Fellow Creatures

Author: Christine M. Korsgaard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191068379

Category: Philosophy

Page: 272

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Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.

Postcolonial Public Theology

2016-02-02
 |  Religion
Postcolonial Public Theology

Author: Paul S. Chung

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781625649027

Category: Religion

Page: 252

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Postcolonial Public Theology is a tour de force--theological reflection transformed by encounter with the most compelling intellectual discourses of our time. It offers prophetic challenge to the hegemony of economic globalization. Evolutionary science's encounter with life's limit questions requires an ethically responsible practice of scientific rationality, measured by sufficient, sustainable livelihood for all. Interreligious engagement compels us to take seriously the realities of cultural hybridity and social location in reimagining a polycentric Christianity. Postcolonial Public Theology makes the case for public theology to turn toward postcolonial imagination, demonstrating a fresh rethinking of public and global issues that continue to emerge in the aftermath of colonialism. This book provides students and scholars in these various fields an interesting framework from which to continue to dialogue about the relevance of this literature and, in particular, the continuing importance of Christian theology in the public arena.

Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night

2013-10-01
 |  Body, Mind & Spirit
Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night

Author: Varla Ventura

Publisher: Weiser Books

ISBN: 9781609259112

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Page: 260

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The lusty vampire, the sympathetic werewolf, the tragic banshee are just a few of the dark and frightening creatures you'll discover in Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night. Huffington Post Weird News columnist and author Varla Ventura takes readers on a wild ride through the shadowy hills of rural Ireland, the dark German forests, and along abandoned farms and country roads across the world to discover some of the most frightening and freaktacular tales, tidbits, and encounters with all those beasties that go bump in the night. Along with classic pieces from Bram Stoker, Elliot O'Donnell, Sabine BaringGould, William Butler Yeats and many others, Ventura includes: • Famous vampires you may not know • The identity of the author of the first English vampire novel (and his relationship to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) • Excerpts from the first psychic vampire novel ever written • Stories of 19th century werewolf hunters • Why banshees are the most feared of supernatural creatures