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10 - Animals in Heaven

The Defeat of Darwinian Evils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2020

John R. Schneider
Affiliation:
Calvin College, Michigan
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In this chapter, the author offers grounds for belief that, in the eschatological end, God will resurrect, transform, and include all non-human creatures and things in the messianic kingdom of God. Besides philosophical-theological and moral grounds, he appeals to doctrines of the “image of God,” the atonement, and the resurrection in support of this eschatological proposition. Next, he discusses recently offered scenarios of animals in Heaven. He focuses on the identity-problem of predation: will predators transformed into non-predators still be themselves?Finally, he offers his own scenario of God defeating Darwinian evil for animals by elevating them to a stature analogous to the exalted place of martyrs according to Christian tradition.

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  • Animals in Heaven
  • John R. Schneider, Calvin College, Michigan
  • Book: Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
  • Online publication: 17 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767439.012
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  • Animals in Heaven
  • John R. Schneider, Calvin College, Michigan
  • Book: Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
  • Online publication: 17 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767439.012
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  • Animals in Heaven
  • John R. Schneider, Calvin College, Michigan
  • Book: Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
  • Online publication: 17 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767439.012
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