La Restauration de la Création: Quelle Place Pour les Animaux? (French Edition) (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae: Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language; Volume 145) by Edited by Michele Cutino, Isabel Iribarren, and Françoise Vinel - 2018

BRILL, 2018. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume of offers 16 articles presented in an earlier form at the ERCAM (Equipe de recherches sur le christianisme ancient et medieval) conference of March 2015, held in Strasbourg, France, on the theme of the animals and people in the theology of creation. Topics include the absence of language in animals and how this was understood by various philosophers and theologians; theologians’ thoughts on whether animals experience life after death; how animals will feature in a return to creation, particularly as this is described in the Book of Isaac; discussion of the place of animals in the works of Philo of Alexandria; vegetarian animals and the peaceable kingdom according to Irenaeus of Lyon. The volume concludes with a consideration of the papal encyclical Laudato sí for the challenges of a philosophy of animal rights based on the notion that animals suffer just like humans do. The volume is in French. (2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)