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The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, PhD, DD, HonDD, is the Henry Bergh Professor of Animal Ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and has been a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford for 28 years. He previously held the world’s first academic post in Theology and Animal Welfare at Mansfield College, Oxford..

From 1987 to 1992, he was Director of Studies of the Centre for the Study of Theology in the University of Essex, and from 1992 to 1996, he was Special Professor in Theology at the University of Nottingham. In 1998, he was Visiting Professor at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1996 to 2007, he was also Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.

Professor Linzey has written or edited 30 books and more than 100 articles. His work has been translated into many languages, including Italian, French, Polish, Spanish, German, Chinese, Taiwanese, Croatian, and Japanese. He has lectured and broadcast extensively in Europe and the United States. In 2001, he was awarded a DD (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”. This is the highest award that the Archbishop can bestow on a theologian and the first time it has been awarded for theological work on animals. In 2006, he was placed on The Independent’s ‘Good List’ of 50 people who have changed Britain “for the better”. In 2010, he was awarded the Lord Erskine Award from the RSPCA for advancing animal welfare within the Christian community.

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• Professor Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
• Professor Linzey’s biography and books
• BBC film profile of Professor Linzey
• Professor Linzey is co-editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics
• Oxford Theologian’s Work for Animals Honoured by RSPCA

• Animal Theology (SCM Press/University of Illinois Press, 1994)
• Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society (Routledge, 1996)
• After Noah (Mowbray/Continuum, 1997)
• Animals on the Agenda (SCM Press/University of Illinois Press, 1998)
• Animal Gospel (Westminster John Knox Press, 1998)
• Animal Rites (SCM Press/The Pilgrim Press, 1999)
• Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2005)
• Creatures of the Same God (Winchester University Press/Lantern, 2007)
• Animals and Christianity: A Book of Readings (Wipf and Stock, 2008)
• Why Animal Suffering Matters (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence (Sussex Academic Press, 2009)
• The Global Guide to Animal Protection (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
• The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
• The Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics (Routledge, 2018)
• Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (Routledge, 2018)

• Anglican (Priest)

• Animal Ethics
• Environmental Theology
• Systematic Theology
• Christian Ethics

• Thesis Supervision