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Disturbing Animals in a Christian Perspective: Re/Considering Sacrifice, Incarnation and Divine Animality

Animal Studies Journal, Vol: 8, Issue: 2, Page: 154-174
2019
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What does Christianity say about other animals? For many people, Jesus-followers and others alike, this is a settled question. The tradition’s long and ongoing history of justifying, participating in and even encouraging indiscriminate violence against other animals makes it one of, if not the most, anti-animal religions. But is it the case that Christianity has little to no intrinsic resources to denounce and dismantle systemic and individual cruelty toward other creatures? Is a biblically grounded approach to other animals’ self-determination and thriving really a lost cause? This essay argues from an Anabaptist/Mennonite theological orientation influenced by various anti-oppression politics that there are resources within the tradition to disturb prevailing ways of conceiving and relating to other animals. It begins with a brief personal reflection about the author’s journey into this perspective and continues with a re/examination of sacrifice, incarnation and the animal nature of God that places other animals at the forefront.

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