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- Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
- Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Facing the Darwinian Problem of Evil
- 2 Darwinian Evil and Anti-Theistic Arguments
- 3 Ways around the Problem
- 4 Making a “Case for God” (a Causa Dei)
- 5 Animal Suffering and the Fall
- 6 Narrow Is the Way of World Making
- 7 God-Justifying Beauty
- 8 Suffering “For No Reason”
- 9 Darwinian Kenōsis and “Divine Selection”
- 10 Animals in Heaven
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Animals in Heaven
The Defeat of Darwinian Evils
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2020
- Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
- Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Facing the Darwinian Problem of Evil
- 2 Darwinian Evil and Anti-Theistic Arguments
- 3 Ways around the Problem
- 4 Making a “Case for God” (a Causa Dei)
- 5 Animal Suffering and the Fall
- 6 Narrow Is the Way of World Making
- 7 God-Justifying Beauty
- 8 Suffering “For No Reason”
- 9 Darwinian Kenōsis and “Divine Selection”
- 10 Animals in Heaven
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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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- Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil , pp. 219 - 269Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020