id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 0k225b01m3g Kurt Edward Milberger The Beasts' Progress: Animals in the British Religious Imagination, 1640-1800 1904 .txt text/plain 321 10 28 Preserved in Christian songs, poems, fables, allegories, and artworks resides the work of thinkers who employed biblical teaching and religious tradition to argue on behalf of animals, and their work must complicate the scholarly view of religious history and its relationship to the ecological crisis. In fact, beginning with the animal soul controversy in the seventeenth century, these writers always thought about animals and humanity's relationship with them in the context of religious beliefs, traditions, and communities. cache/0k225b01m3g.txt txt/0k225b01m3g.txt