Andrew Linzey

Andrew Linzey is Henry Bergh Professor of Animal Ethics. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He also held the world’s first academic post in Theology and Animal Welfare at Mansfield College, Oxford, 1992-2000, and at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, from 2000-2006. From 1987 to 1992, he was Director of Studies of the Centre for the Study of Theology in the University of Essex, England, and from 1992 to 1996, he was Special Professor in Theology at the University of Nottingham, England. In 1998, he was Visiting Professor at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Winchester, England, and Special Professor at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. Professor Linzey has written more than 180 articles, and authored or edited twenty books on theology and ethics, including: Animal Theology; Animals on the Agenda: Questions about Animals for Theology and Ethics; Animal Gospel: Christian Faith as If Animals Mattered; and Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology. He is also co-editor of the Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society published by Routledge in 1995. Professor Linzey has lectured and broadcast extensively in Europe and the United States. His books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese. In 2001, he was awarded a D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) degree by the Archbishop of Canterbury in recognition of his "unique and massive pioneering work at a scholarly level in the area of the theology of creation with particular reference to the rights and welfare of God’s sentient creatures."

Books

Religious Affiliation

Anglican (Priest)

Specialized Areas

Animal Ethics; Environmental Theology; Systematic Theology; Christian Ethics