Should all animals kept for human consumption be freed for their own sake and happiness? Or can their killing for meat and consumption be a “priestly act” through God’s permission, as Karl Barth puts it.
This week we will cover the first half of the final chapter of Christopher Southgate’s “The Groaning of Creation.”
Some interesting conversations today as we finished Chapter 2 of The Groaning of Creation as we discussed whether or not Genesis advocates vegetarianism, whether Jesus was the apex of human evolution or humanity itself, and if the doctrine of the Fall is a necessary and viable concept given the discoveries of science.
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