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Zusatztext This book raises a series of deeply difficult questions designed to make all of us think much more thoroughly about something we all do more or less daily. And that, I think, makes it a book which deserves to be read. Informationen zum Autor Dr David Grumett is Research Fellow in Theology in the University of Exeter, UK. Rachel Muers is Chair of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK Vorwort A collaborative volume on the concept of modern vegetarianism and the relationships between people's beliefs and food practices. Zusammenfassung Considers the relationship between eating and believing from non-Christian perspectives that have in turn shaped Christian attitudes and practices. This book examines ethical arguments about vegetarianism and their significance for Christian theologies of food. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Rachel Muers and David Grumett) Developments in Biblical and Historical TheologyFood and diet in the priestly material of the Pentateuch (Nathan MacDonald)Mosaic food rules in Celtic spirituality in Ireland (David Grumett)Biblical Vegetarianism? A critical and constructive assessment (David G. Horrell)Angels, beasts, machines, and men: configuring the human and non-human in Judaeo-Christian tradition (David Clough)Perspective from Late Antiquity Vegetarianism, heresy, and asceticism in late ancient Christianity (Teresa M. Shaw)'The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?': The ethics of vegetarianism in the writings of Plutarch (Michael Beer)Hoi polloi: spiritual choices for the many and the few (John Wilkins)Faith at the Origins of Modern Vegetarianism 'Ours is the food that Eden knew': themes in the theology and practice of modern Christian vegetarians (Samantha Jane Calvert)'A Lutheranism of the table': religion and the Victorian vegetarians (James R.T.E. Gregory)The Theory of VegetarianismThe argument from marginal cases: a philosophical and theological defense (Daniel Dombrowski)Seeing and believing: gender and species hierarchy in contemporary cultures of animal food (Erika Cudworth)Seeing, choosing and eating: Theology and the feminist vegetarian debate (Rachel Muers)Structure and agency in the antislavery and animal liberation movements (Nigel Pleasants)Theological Views on Current Food DebatesSymbol, community, and vegetarianism (David Brown)Eucharistic eating, and why many early Christians preferred fish (Michael S. Northcott)Protological and eschatological vegetarianism (Christopher Southgate)Conclusion (Rachel Muers)Index...
