Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. FOREWORD xi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
5. Introduction: From Animal Theory to Creaturely Theology 1
6. Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed: Writing after Derrida 17
7. The Dogs of Exodus and the Question of the Animal 36
8. Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology 51
9. The Microbes and Pneuma That Therefore I Am 63
10. The Apophatic Animal: Toward a Negative Zootheological Imago Dei 88
11. The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia 100
12. Animal Calls 116
13. Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke and God’s Animal Body 134
14. The Logos of God and the End of Humanity: Giorgio Agamben and the Gospel of John on Animality as Light and Life 146
15. Anzaldúa’s Animal Abyss: Mestizaje and the Late Ancient Imagination 161
16. Daniel’s Animal Apocalypse 182
17. Ecotherology 196
18. And Say the Animal Really Responded: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity 210
19. So Many Faces: God, Humans, and Animals 223
20. A Spiritual Democracy of All God’s Creatures: Ecotheology and the Animals of Lynn White Jr 241
21. Epilogue. Animals and Animality: Reflections on the Art of Jan Harrison 261
22. NOTES 277
23. CONTRIBUTORS 351
24. INDEX 357