'The Gift' by J.D. Beresford and Esme Wynne Tyson

Reviewed in The Vegetarian News (Winter 1947) See also: 'Christianity and Vegetarianism'

'Catholics and Natural Living'

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (October 1946 edition). The cited author, Rev. Aloysius Roche, wrote a major treatise on animal welfare: These Animals of Ours (Burnes, Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1939) See: Quotation

'Christian Ethics and the Animal Kingdom' by the Duchess of Hamilton

Here's a theological treatise from 1935 which I stumbled upon only recently and some striking excerpts from the author's moral case.

Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990)

Former Baptist minister and Bible College teacher, John Wood, traces the life of the missionary whose publications included at least two theological vegetarian booklets: Children of the Highest and The Way of the Holy, Harmless Lamb.

Monarch publications, 1996

Obituary: Professor Cecil John Cadoux (1883-1947)

Portrait from C.J. Cadoux - Theologian, Scholar and Pacifist by Elaine Kaye (Edinburgh University Press, 1988)

Text from The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (September 1947)

See also: Lecture

'The Animal Kingdom - Why? Whence? Whither?' by Basil Viney

A short treatise which explores the origins, nature and destiny of creation by a clergyman of the Unitarian church.

Published by James Clarke & Co. Ltd, 1965

See: Autobiography

'The Last Wesleyan: A life of Donald Soper' by Mark Peel

Published in partnership with Scotforth Books (2008)

The author reveals:

"In 1947 he was so repelled by the smell at an Australian slaughterhouse at which he was preaching, and the chilling sight of the animals awaiting their fate, that he vowed to become a vegetarian, a pledge he kept till 1963 when, on doctors' advice, he began eating some white meat to increase his protein levels. As more literature came to light exposing the cruelty animals were subjected to, Donald became more uncompromising in their defence. He opposed the staging of the Grand National, Britain's premier steeplechase, because of the grievous - sometimes mortal - injuries sustained by some of the horses due to the challenging nature of the jumps. Then at Christmas 1955, he incurred unpopularity with his children by denying them their annual trip to the circus because of his contention that performing animals were made to suffer unnecessary pain. He even began to wear plastic shoes, after being criticised at Tower Hill for wearing leather ones, at variance with his vegetarianism." (p262)

See also: 'Quotation'

'These We Have Not Loved' by the Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore, M.A.

'A treatise on the Christian attitude to the creatures' - dedicated to the Rev. J. Todd-Ferrier and written by an Anglican clergyman. (C.W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1942, 1946 & 1971)

'Reason, Religion and the Animals' by Rev. Basil Wrighton, MA

A compilation of influential essays and transcripts of lectures from The Ark - journal of Catholic Concern for Animals. (Published in 1987)

Bibliography: 'A Guiltless Feast' by Derek Antrobus