Clair Linzey

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Clair Linzey
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Clair Susan Linzey
Education
Father Andrew Linzey
Institutions
Thesis Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff

Clair Susan Linzey is a British theologian, ethicist, editor, and writer. She is the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Linzey's research centres on animal theology and ethics, environmental ethics, systematic and feminist theology, and Christian ethics. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics and the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series.

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Early life and education

Clair Susan Linzey [1] is the daughter of the theologian Andrew Linzey. [2] In 2004, she received a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she received several prizes. [3] Linzey received two scholarships to study for a Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 2008. [3] She received her Doctor of Philosophy on the ecological theology of Leonardo Boff, with a particular focus on its relation to animals, also from St Andrews. [1]

Career

Linzey is the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the director of their annual summer school, as well as a Research Fellow in Animal Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. [4] She is also co-editor, with her father, of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series and the Journal of Animal Ethics . [5] Linzey specialises in animal theology and ethics, environmental ethics, systematic and feminist theology, and Christian ethics. [6]

Bibliography

Books authored by Clair Linzey:

Books co-authored with Andrew Linzey:

Books co-edited with Andrew Linzey:

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References

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  2. Valpey, Kenneth R. (2019). Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics. Springer Nature. pp. xvii. ISBN   978-3-030-28408-4.
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