The document summarizes key points from a lecture about Christianity's views on human/nonhuman animal relations based on biblical narratives and the theology of Augustine and Aquinas. It discusses two creation stories in Genesis that establish man having dominion over animals, the fall leading to death and suffering, the flood cleansing the earth, and animals becoming food. It then examines Augustine's view of animals lacking reason and souls, making them tools for man's use, and Aquinas agreeing while influenced by Aristotle that only man is rational.