Must We Love Non-Human Animals?
Drawing especially on Aquinas and Pope Francis, the paper argues that Christians are indeed called to love non-human animals. Human love (amor) for non-human animals follows from the Trinitarian example of divine love (amor), and includes affection, dilection, benevolence, and thus charity as friend...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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New blackfriars
Jahr: 2021, Band: 102, Heft: 1099, Seiten: 322-338 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Affection
B animal theology B Caritas B Amor B Summa Theologiae B Laudato Si B Animals B Pope Francis B Love B Aquinas B Pope John Paul II B Animal Rights B non-human animals B Charity |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Drawing especially on Aquinas and Pope Francis, the paper argues that Christians are indeed called to love non-human animals. Human love (amor) for non-human animals follows from the Trinitarian example of divine love (amor), and includes affection, dilection, benevolence, and thus charity as friendship. Love for and fraternity with non-human animals constitutes a necessary dimension of Christian conversion. The specific form this love takes depends on the particular natures inherent in different species. So to show love to a dog will be very different from showing love to a wolf, which is in turn very different from how one shows love to a chicken, or to a frog, and so on. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-2005 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: New blackfriars
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12615 |