Animal Rights and Wrongs - A Biblical Perspective

Ever since Peter Singer wrote his book Animal Liberation in 1975, the question of the ethics of our treatment of animals has been firmly on the agenda of the Western world. Unfortunately, as with so many major ethical debates, evangelicalism has lagged behind both the secular thinkers and less conservative theologians. Tony Sargent is therefore to be commended in helping us to do a little catching up. He tells us that he writes about animal welfare because: 'There is a large collection of books and learned articles which consider it, but I could find little from evangelicals' (p. 2).

Peter Comont