Animals in Heaven? - Hardcover

by Terry Martin (Author), Andrew Linzey (Foreword by)

Christians of all traditions have often puzzled with the question ""Do dogs go to heaven?"" Drawing on Catholic teaching, and on his long pastoral experience as a parish priest, Terry Martin expands that concept to consider wider issues around all animals, domesticated and free-living, and why they are here. Within a context of Christian faith, he seeks to understand the place of animals in God's complex creation and the relationship that human beings have (for good or ill) with those animals. More than that, he looks at the big questions which so many ask about who, under God, animals are and what meaning, if any, animal lives have from a Catholic Christian perspective.

Author Biography

Born in 1964, Terry Martin is a priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. After graduating from the Royal College of Music in London, he completed formation for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, Wonersh, and the Venerable English College, Rome. Ordained in 1999, he has been, since 2015, parish priest of Worthing and Lancing in West Sussex, England. He is a former trustee of Catholic Concern for Animals.