Animals in Christian Hymns
Animals in Christian Hymns
Animals have always had a complex existence within Judeo-Christian religious epistemologies and teachings, as humans explain the divine through their shared existence on earth with other non-human animals. The Christian creation story in Genesis 1: 21-2 depicts animals being created before humans, ‘the great creatures of the sea and every living thing…. And God saw that it was good’ (NIV). But when creating Adam and Eve, God’s edict to them was to ‘rule over’ (1: 28 NIV) the other species (‘have dominion over’ in KJV); and one creature--the serpent--causes their Fall from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). God intentionally saved all species of animals when...
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