Andrew Linzey Is Born

Andrew Linzey was born on 2 February 1952 in Oxford, England, and went on to become the Anglican priest most associated with making animal welfare a serious subject inside Christian theology rather than a side concern for it. He built his case across decades of books, starting with Animal Rights: A Christian Perspective in 1976 and reaching its fullest statement in 1994's Animal Theology, which argued that animals are fellow creatures owed care, not property or resources. In 2006 he founded the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, an independent academic institution for studying the subject, and in the same year was named Henry Bergh Professor of Animal Ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation in the US. In 2001, Archbishop George Carey awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree for what the citation called his pioneering work on the theology of creation and animal welfare.