Dr Clair Linzey
Clair Linzey is a Research Fellow in Animal Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. She is also Deputy Directorof the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Her research focuses on the intersections of theology, animals, and the environment. Of particular concern is what Christian theology has to say about the moral status of animals and our treatment of them. Her doctorate explored the relationship of animal theology, ecotheology, and liberation theology in relation to the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff. Her work is grounded in the increasing scientific evidence of animal sentience and its relation to theological understandings of suffering. These ideas are explored in relation to practical moral and scientific issues, such as "predator control," aquaculture, captivity, and the use of farmed animals.
- PhD in Theology, University of St Andrews
- MTS in Theology, Harvard Divinity School
- MA in Theological Studies, University of St Andrews
- Animal Theology
- Animal Ethics
- Environmental Theology
- Ecotheology
- Application of science to human-animal bond
- Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation
- Director of the Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School
- Co-Editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics published by the University of Illinois Press
- Co-Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series on Animal Ethics
Clair Linzey and Andrew Linzey (Eds.), A Companion to Humane Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey (Eds.), Animal History: History as if Animals Mattered (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2025)
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey (Eds.), Animal Theologians (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023)
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey (Eds.), The Ethics of Fur: Religious, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023)
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, "Animals and Religious Ethics." In: Joan Schaffner (Ed.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2025): 33-36
Clair Linzey, "An Animal Oath for Business." In: Yanoula Athanassakis, Renan Larue, William O'Donohue (Eds.), The Vegan and Plant-Based Handbook: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. (Springer, 2024): 173-180
Amici Curiae in Defence of Amahle, Nolwazi, and Mabu in Support of the Nonhuman Right Project in the Supreme Court of California. (August 29, 2023).
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, The Theological and Ethical Grounds against Keeping Elephants Captive, The Global Journal of Animal Law, 11(1
Amici Curiae in Defence of Happy the Elephant in Support of the Nonhuman Right Project in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York. (April 7, 2022).
Clair Linzey, "Animal Theology: A View from the Periphery", Faith and Freedom, 68(1) (Spring and Summer 2015): 22-25
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, "Animals." In: Brawley, R. L. (Ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015): 10-13
Clair Linzey, "Animals in Catholic Thought: A New Sensitivity?" In: Wrόbel, S. (Ed.) The Animals in Us: We in Animals(Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 2014): 187-202
Clair Linzey, "Animals in Catholic Thought: A New Sensitivity?" In: Wrόbel, S. (Ed.) (2014). The Experience of Animality. [Special Issue]. Dialogue and Universalism 24(1): 141-155
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, "The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics." In: Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2014): 1467-1470