This paper defends “Animal Universalism,” the thesis that all sentient non-human animals will be brought into Heaven and remain there for eternity. It assumes that God exists and is all-powerful, perfectly loving, and perfectly just. From these background theses, the authors argue that Animal Universalism follows. If God is perfectly loving, then God is concerned about the well-being of non-human animals, and God chooses to maximize the well-being of each individual animal when doing so does not harm other individual creatures or violate creaturely freedom. If God is perfectly just, then God does not arbitrarily discriminate against non-human animals by offering humans an opportunity to enter Heaven but not offering the same to each animal....
The problem of evil is unanswered and puzzling to the majority of philosophers and Christian theists...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Clough, D. (2014). On Thinking Theologic...
Human concern with the moral status of non-human animals can be seen to stretch quite some way back...
This paper defends “Animal Universalism,” the thesis that all sentient non-human animals will be bro...
Beginning in about the second century C.E., Christian philosophers reflected upon the nature of huma...
It is widely recognized that the animal suffering of the evolutionary past is a problem for believer...
Philosophers and theologians have long tried to reconcile belief in a perfect God with the fact of w...
The present article is based on the assumption that consideration of non-human animals is an importa...
Nature shows itself to us in ambivalent ways. Breathtaking beauty and cruelty lie close together. A ...
In this dissertation I argue that animal pain and suffering pose a greater problem for God\u27s good...
In this paper, we defend universalism, which we understand to be the thesis that all individuals wil...
The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 raised a host of theological issues. Chief amongst ...
In this article, I will argue that consideration of non-human animals is an important element of a g...
Christian teaching claims that animals, who are not humans, can’t be moral agents and have no rights...
In early modern times it was not uncommon for thinkers to tease out from the nature of God various d...
The problem of evil is unanswered and puzzling to the majority of philosophers and Christian theists...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Clough, D. (2014). On Thinking Theologic...
Human concern with the moral status of non-human animals can be seen to stretch quite some way back...
This paper defends “Animal Universalism,” the thesis that all sentient non-human animals will be bro...
Beginning in about the second century C.E., Christian philosophers reflected upon the nature of huma...
It is widely recognized that the animal suffering of the evolutionary past is a problem for believer...
Philosophers and theologians have long tried to reconcile belief in a perfect God with the fact of w...
The present article is based on the assumption that consideration of non-human animals is an importa...
Nature shows itself to us in ambivalent ways. Breathtaking beauty and cruelty lie close together. A ...
In this dissertation I argue that animal pain and suffering pose a greater problem for God\u27s good...
In this paper, we defend universalism, which we understand to be the thesis that all individuals wil...
The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 raised a host of theological issues. Chief amongst ...
In this article, I will argue that consideration of non-human animals is an important element of a g...
Christian teaching claims that animals, who are not humans, can’t be moral agents and have no rights...
In early modern times it was not uncommon for thinkers to tease out from the nature of God various d...
The problem of evil is unanswered and puzzling to the majority of philosophers and Christian theists...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Clough, D. (2014). On Thinking Theologic...
Human concern with the moral status of non-human animals can be seen to stretch quite some way back...