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Not a Not-Animal: The Vocation to Be a Human Animal Creature
Clough, David
Clough, David
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2013-01-30
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This article diagnoses and critiques two ‘not-animal’ modes of theological anthropology: first, the construction of human identity on the basis of supposed evidence of human/non-human difference; second, accounts of the human that take no account of God’s other creatures. It suggests that not-animal anthropologies exhibit poor theological methodology, are based on inaccurate depictions of both humans and other animals, and result in problematic construals of what it means to be human. Instead, the article concludes, we require theological anthropologies that take as a starting point the relationship between humanity and God and recognise the animal and creaturely context of human existence.
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Clough, D. (2013). Not a not-animal: The vocation to be a human animal creature. Studies in Christian Ethics, 26(1), 4-17.
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SAGE Publications
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Studies in Christian Ethics
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0953-9468
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1745-5235