ABSTRACT
On hearing the story of the preaching dog in the early Christian apocryphal text “The Acts of Peter,” most people are either amazed or skeptical or both. Certainly there are no dogs who speak in the history of this very humancentered religious tradition, are there? Christianity, along with many religions, elevates the human above all other animals making them dominant and even ontologically superior. God incarnated as a human (and a male one at that) in this quite anthropocentric tradition. How could speaking animals have a role? These are questions well worth posing and they are understandably cynical based on the popular perception of Christianity.
