Early Christians and Animals
Title | Early Christians and Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Grant |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134633750 |
Early Christians and Animals presents a lively study of the significance of animals in early Christian thought, tradition, text and art. Robert M. Grant: * examines the diverse and often conflicting sources, from the pagan antecedents Aristotle and Pliny, to Biblical animal references and the Church fathers * provides fresh translations of key texts concerning animals - the Physiologus, Basils homilies and Isidores chapters.
Early Christians and Animals
Title | Early Christians and Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Grant |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134633742 |
Early Christians and Animals presents a lively study of the significance of animals in early Christian thought, tradition, text and art. Robert M. Grant: * examines the diverse and often conflicting sources, from the pagan antecedents Aristotle and Pliny, to Biblical animal references and the Church fathers * provides fresh translations of key texts concerning animals - the Physiologus, Basils homilies and Isidores chapters.
Early Christians and Animals
Title | Early Christians and Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN | 9780415202046 |
In the Eye of the Animal
Title | In the Eye of the Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Cox Miller |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812250354 |
In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how ancient texts and images celebrated a continuum of human and animal life.
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
Title | Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 PDF eBook |
Author | M.-Z. Petropoulou |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2008-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199218544 |
A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity between 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice, and the reasons why they ultimately rejected it.
Christianity and the Rights of Animals
Title | Christianity and the Rights of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Linzey |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1498291953 |
Christian concern about how we treat animals has increased strikingly in recent years. More and more Christians are deciding that our attitudes toward animals must change. Here is a book that presents, for the first time, a comprehensive and well-argued theological case for the rights of animals, and offers a challenging critique of our existing insensitivity toward animal life. Everyone who cares about the rights of animals, particularly clergy and ministers who are constantly being asked for answers on the issue, will welcome this new and important book.
The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice
Title | The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel C. Ullucci |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199791708 |
Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically with the rise of Christianity. Ullucci explores this transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion.