Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology

390 Pages·2014·1.791 MB·English

by  Stephen Moore (editor), Laurel Kearns (editor)

DIVINANIMALITY
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TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEOLOGICAL COLLOQUIA
Theology has hovered for two millennia between scriptural metaphor and
philosophical thinking; it takes fl esh in its symbolic, communal, and ethi-
cal practices. With the gift of this history and in the spirit of its unrealized
potential, the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia intensify move-
ment between and beyond the fi elds of religion. A multivocal discourse
of theology takes place in the interstices, at once self-deconstructive in its
pluralism and constructive in its affi rmations.
Hosted annually by Drew University’s Theological School, the colloquia
provide a matrix for such conversations, and Fordham University Press
serves as the midwife for their publication. Committed to the slow trans-
formation of religiocultural symbolism, the colloquia continue Drew’s
long history of engaging historical, biblical, and philosophical hermeneu-
tics, practices of social justice, and experiments in theopoetics.
Catherine Keller, Director
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D I V I N A N I M A L I T Y
Animal Theory,
Creaturely Theology
E D I T E D B Y S T E P H E N D. M O O R E
Fordham University Press (cid:2) New York (cid:2) 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Divinanimality : animal theory, creaturely theology / edited by Stephen D. Moore. —
First edition.
pages cm — (Transdisciplinary theological colloquia)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8232-6319-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8232-6320-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Animals—Philosophy. 2. Animals—Religious aspects. 3. Ecotheology.
I. Moore, Stephen D., 1954– editor.
b105.a55d58 2014
202′.4—dc23
2014013004
Printed in the United States of America
16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1
First edition
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In memory of Helen Tartar
(1951–2014)
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Laurel Kearns xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: From Animal Theory
to Creaturely Theology | Stephen D. Moore 1
Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live,
by Whom I Am Addressed: Writing
after Derrida | Glen A. Mazis 17
The Dogs of Exodus and the Question
of the Animal | Ken Stone 36
Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal
Soteriology | Erika Murphy 51
The Microbes and Pneuma That Therefore
I Am | Denise Kimber Buell 63
The Apophatic Animal: Toward a Negative
Zootheological Imago Dei | Jacob J. Erickson 88
The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia |
Terra S. Rowe 100
Animal Calls | Kate Rigby 116
Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria
Rilke and God’s Animal Body | Beatrice Marovich 134
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