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Crown of Creation? / 5 Traces of animal ethics in early Christian literature
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Preface from the co-editor
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Foreword
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1 Anthropocentrism as Christian patrimony. About the question of this book
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1.1 The current Roman Catholic position on the moral status of animals
1.1.1 The 1991 Catechism of the Catholic Church
1.1.2 The 2015 encyclical Laudato si’
1.2 Clarification of the term “anthropocentrism”
1.3 The central question of this book
1.4 Ten core theses of this study
1.5 The structure of this book
41–58
2 Prehistory 1: Animals in the pre-Hellenistic writings of the Bible
41–58
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2.1 Animals in the older Creation narrative (Gen 2–8): Companions and Fates
2.2 Animals in the younger Creation narrative (Gen 1–9): Co-habitants and covenant partners
2.3 Animals in the instructions of the Torah: addressees of justice
2.4 The vision of the peace of creation
2.5 Contribution: Anthropocentrism in the pre-Hellenistic Bible?
59–100
3 Prehistory 2: Animals in Greco-Roman Philosophy
59–100
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3.1 Setting the course in the pre-Socratic era
3.2 Theological Anthropocentrism in Socrates
3.3 Reason as the driver in Plato’s work
3.4 Broad development of the aloga thesis in Aristotle
3.5 Perfecting rationalist anthropocentrism in the Stoa
3.5.1 The oikeiosis doctrine as a framing theory
3.5.2 Animal Behaviour as Natural
3.5.3 Rationality as a proprium of the human being
3.5.4 Teleologically strict anthropocentrism
3.5.5 No legal community between humans and animals
3.5.6 Summary: The Core Aspects of Stoic Anthropocentrism
3.6 Criticism of the Stoic Mainstream by a Minority
3.6.1 Tiberius Iulius Alexander
3.6.2 Plutarch of Chaironeia
3.6.3 Sextus Empiricus
3.6.4 Kelsos
3.6.5 Porphyrios of Tyros
3.6.6 Summary
101–136
4 Prehistory 3: Pre-Patristic Traces of the Hellenisation of Biblical Animal Ethics
101–136
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4.1 The late Old Testament texts
4.2 Philon of Alexandria
4.3 The testimonies of the New Testament
4.3.1 Jesus of Nazareth
4.3.2 Paul of Tarsos
4.3.3 The Gospels
4.3.4 The late New Testament epistolary literature
4.3.5 The Early Church’s Detachment from the Commandment of Ritual Slaughter
4.4 On the threshold from the biblical to the patristic period
137–288
5 Traces of animal ethics in early Christian literature
137–288
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5.1 Tatian
5.2 Theophilos of Antioch
5.3 Irenaeus of Lyons
5.4 Clement of Alexandria
5.5 Tertullian
5.6 Origen
5.6.1 About the beginnings
5.6.2 The Homilies on Genesis
5.6.3 The treatise against Kelsos
5.6.4 Summary
5.7 Lactance
5.8 Aphrahat
5.9 Ephraim the Syrian
5.10 Cyril of Jerusalem
5.11 Basil of Caesarea
5.11.1 Sermons on various topics and occasions
5.11.2 The nine homilies to the Hexaemeron
5.12 Gregory of Nyssa
5.13 Ambrose of Milan
5.14 John Chrysostom
5.15 Nemesios of Emesa
5.16 Pseudo-Athenagoras
5.17 Jerome
5.18 Augustine of Hippo
5.18.1 First approach to determining the differences between humans and animals
5.18.2 Appreciation of animal skills
5.18.3 The specifically human capabilities
5.18.4 Humans’ and animals’ relationship to God
5.18.5 Ethical consequences for humans and animals
5.18.6 The question of meat consumption
5.18.7 Valuing even the least creatures
5.18.8 Weak anthropocentrism and cautious criticism of anthropocentrism
5.18.9 Summary
5.19 The Animal Ethical Impetuses of Early Christian Theology in the Context of Hellenism. A Summary
5.19.1 The Church Fathers and the Fixed Points of Stoic–Hellenistic Philosophy
5.19.2 The Church Fathers and Biblical Animal Ethics
289–358
6 On the (further) development of Christian animal ethics
289–358
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6.1 You are wanted! The question of God’s providence
6.1.1 Historical Philosophy/Theology
6.1.2 Systematic theological
6.2 Saved as the Body of God. The Question of Man’s Endowment with Reason and his Relationship with Christ
6.2.1 Ethological
6.2.2 Christological
6.2.3 Eschatological
6.3 “The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us” (LS 83). The question of the teleological interpretation of natural processes
6.3.1 Particular teleonomies and comprehensive teleology
6.3.2 Biocentrism as the most appropriate teleology
6.4 Body signals for the good. The question of the importance of feelings
6.4.1 Greek scepticism towards feelings
6.4.2 Feelings as a Constitutive Component of Reason
6.5 “Come to me, brother wolf!” The question about animals and plants
6.6 Crown of Creation? A conclusion
359–362
Source texts of the Church Fathers
359–362
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363–374
Literature
363–374
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375–377
Bible passages register
375–377
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378–378
Register of Magisterial Documents
378–378
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379–381
Register of Persons
379–381
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Crown of Creation? , page 137 - 288
5 Traces of animal ethics in early Christian literature
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Michael Rosenberger
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doi.org/10.5771/9783748940289-137
ISBN print: 978-3-7560-1277-0
ISBN online: 978-3-7489-4028-9
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