Calvin and the beasts: Animals in John Calvin's theological discourse

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

In the twentieth century, John Calvin's theology of creation has been the subject of much debate, especially as it has figured in controversies regarding the legitimacy of natural theology in Christian thought and of what is now called "animal theology" in Christian ethics. Read through systematic Barthian categories, Calvin's thought on nature has been construed as conceptually negative, simply a thematic foil for an exclusive "theanthropocentric" gospel of salvific revelation in Jesus Christ.1 At the hands of animal rights theologians, his thought has been reduced to a "humanocentric" ...

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