Review By Conor Gearty of
On God and Dogs: a Christian theology of compassion for animals
By Stephen H. Webb
From The Tablet dated 3 October 1998
The other two books occupy a very different intellectual space from
that so triumphantly filled by Hilda Kean. On God and Dogs
is a stimulating analysis by an associate professor of religion and
philosophy of a Christian approach to animals, and one in particular
that draws inspiration from the secular "animal rights" movement.. The
author has also learned from what he calls "a feminist revaluation of
the importance of feeling in the moral life", of the value of being
"unafraid to talk about animals with emotion".
Conor Gearty
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