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68: A Christian Perspective on Animal Ethics: Exploring Our Responsibilities Towards Other Creatures with Theologian, Dr. David Clough (S7)

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“Animal killing looks like a very morally serious act. In those rules about sacrifice and consumption of animals in the Old Testament. And then animal sacrifice, is not saying that animal lives don’t matter. It’s saying quite reverse. Animals are somehow able to mediate nothing less than a sort of relationship between humans and the divine.”Dr. David Clough

Episode 4 of Series 7: Animal and the Divine Transcript

I’m talking to Dr. David Clough about Souls, Old Testament Animal Welfare, God’s Original Vision, and the diversity of life. And why religion is not the problem when it comes to ethical questions and actions of a culture. 

Guest: David L. Clough is Professor in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. He is author of the landmark two-volume monograph On Animals (2012, 2019), on the place of animals in Christian theology and ethics. He is Principal Investigator for a three-year AHRC-funded project on the Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfarein partnership with major UK churches, which in 2022 is working with educators to develop learning resources from the project for schools and theological colleges. He founded the DefaultVeg campaign, which promotes a simple policy shift to a vegetarian/vegan default for events catering, and co-founded of CreatureKind, an organization engaging Christians with farmed animal welfare. You can find him @DLClough on Twitter.

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