The Foundations Of Christian Bioethics

Author : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 902651557X

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The Foundations of Christian Bioethics by Hugo Tristram Engelhardt Pdf

For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195057362

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The Foundations of Bioethics by H. Tristram Engelhardt Pdf

This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.

Author : Ana Smith Iltis,Mark J. Cherry
Publisher : M & M Scrivener Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780980209495

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At the Roots of Christian Bioethics by Ana Smith Iltis,Mark J. Cherry Pdf

At the Roots of Christian Bioethics explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice. Engelhardt has been the most influential, cogent, but critical voice within bioethics of the past several decades. The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological and topical contributions to bioethics, political theory, and Christian theology. Each explores Engelhardt's diagnosis of the contemporary social and cultural crisis, seeking to make sense of the decidedly post-Christian and often openly anti-Christian ethics that dominates public morality and politic policy. Each author investigates Engelhardt's personal and tireless enquiry to secure ultimate moral foundations as well as to recognize the full implications of the results of his investigations: that Christian bioethics does not originate in human reason but in the command of God.

Author : David VanDrunen
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433521836

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Bioethics and the Christian Life by David VanDrunen Pdf

Just about everyone will face a difficult bioethics decision at some point. In this book a theologian, ethicist, and lawyer equips Christians to make such decisions based on biblical truth, wisdom, and virtue. Though a relatively new discipline, bioethics has generated extraordinary interest due to a number of socially pressing issues. Bioethics and the Christian Life places bioethics within the holistic context of the Christian life, both developing a general Christian approach to making bioethics decisions and addressing a number of specific, controversial areas of bioethics. Clear, concise, and well-organized, the book is divided into three sections. The first lays the theological foundation for bioethics decision-making and discusses the importance of wisdom and virtue in working through these issues. The second section addresses beginning-of-life issues, such as abortion, stem-cell research, and infertility treatments. The third section covers end-of-life issues, such as living wills, accepting and refusing medical treatment, and treatment of patients in permanent vegetative states.

Author : Dennis P. Hollinger
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801025631

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Choosing the Good by Dennis P. Hollinger Pdf

An intelligent discussion of the foundations and methods in ethics and ways to apply a Christian worldview to our secular culture.

Author : E.E. Shelp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401577236

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Theology and Bioethics by E.E. Shelp Pdf

We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism. For a variety of rather complex reasons we continue to split apart and treat as radical opposites body and spirit, medicine and religion, sacred and secular, private and public, love and justice, men and women. Though this is still our strong tendency, we are beginning to discover both the futility and the harm of such dualistic splitting. Peoples of many ancient cultures might smile at the belatedness of our discovery concerning the commonalities of medicine and religion. A cur sory glance back at ancient Egypt, Samaria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome would disclose a common thread - the close union of religion and medicine. Both were centrally concerned with healing, health, and wholeness. The person was understood as a unity of body, mind, and spirit. The priest and the physician frequently were combined in the same individual. One of the important contributions of this significant volume of essays is the sustained attack upon dualism. From a variety of vantage points, virtually all of the authors unmask the varied manifestations of dualism in religion and medicine, urging a more holistic approach. Since the editor has provided an excellent summary of each article, I shall not attempt to comment on specific contributions. Rather , I wish to highlight three 1 broad themes which I find notable for theological ethics.

Author : C. Ben Mitchell,D. Joy Riley, MD
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433684272

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Christian Bioethics by C. Ben Mitchell,D. Joy Riley, MD Pdf

Living in an era of highly technical medicine is comforting and sometimes confusing. How should Christians make life and death decisions? How do we move from an ancient text like the Bible to twenty-first-century questions about organ transplantation, stem-cell research, and human cloning? What kind of care do we owe one another at the end of life? Is euthanasia a Christian option? Using a dialogue format, an ethicist and physician talk about how to think about thorny ethical issues. Combining their backgrounds in medicine and theology, they deal with real-life moral questions in an accessible way. C. Ben Mitchell and D. Joy Riley let readers eavesdrop on their conversation about the training of doctors, the interpretation of the Bible, and controversial issues like abortion, assisted-suicide, genetic engineering, and in vitro fertilization. The book examines these topics under three general headings: the taking of life, the making of life, and the faking of life. Christian Bioethics is a guidebook for pastors, health care professionals and families—anyone facing difficult decisions about health care.

Author : Lisa M. Rasmussen,Ana Iltis,Mark J. Cherry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319189659

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At the Foundations of Bioethics and Biopolitics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. by Lisa M. Rasmussen,Ana Iltis,Mark J. Cherry Pdf

This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H. Tristram Engelhardt Junior, Co-Founding Editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. Amongst the founders of bioethics, Professor Engelhardt, Jr. looms large. Many of his books and articles have appeared in multiple languages, including Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese. The essays in this book focus critically on a wide swath of his work, in the process elucidating, critiquing, and/or commending the rigor and reach of his thought. This volume compasses analyses of many different aspects of Engelhardt's work, including social and political philosophy, biopolitics, the philosophy of medicine, and bioethics. It brings together internationally known scholars to assess key elements of Engelhardt's work.

Author : John C. Dwyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCAL:B4539943

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Foundations of Christian Ethics by John C. Dwyer Pdf

Author : Richard Holloway
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847676795

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Godless Morality by Richard Holloway Pdf

The use of God in any moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. We can argue whether this or that alleged claim emanated from God, but surely it is better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for supporting the systems that we advocate. Godless Morality is a refreshing, courageous and human-centred justification for contemporary morality.

Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Applied ethics
ISBN : 0881414999

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After God by H. Tristram Engelhardt Pdf

Engelhardt invites readers to understand what it means to live in a world after God, where questions of sin and virtue have been replaced with life-and-death-style choices. After God provides a dark prophetic vision. But there is still hope. As Engelhardt argues, In this culture, children now grow up apart from and defended against a recognition of the God Who lives. They are nurtured in a social fabric that is structured so as to avoid a recognition of, much less an encounter with, God. Nevertheless ... a traditional Christianity has endured, even though its morality and bioethics have become ever more strongly counter-cultural. The source of this traditional Christian otherness over against the surrounding post-theistic culture lies in the origins of Christianity itself, in the Christianity of the Apostles and the Fathers, namely, in Orthodox Christianity. Against the tenor of the times, disregarding the animus to set traditional Christianity aside, and despite heretics prominent within its fold, Orthodox Christianity remains a light in a world after God. --! From back cover.

Author : Salzman, Todd A.. ,Lawler, Michael G.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337859

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Introduction to Catholic Theological Ethic by Salzman, Todd A.. ,Lawler, Michael G. Pdf

Two renowned, award-winning authors in the field of virtue and sexual ethics introduce and then apply their ethical method to such topics as relativism, ecology, bioethics, sexual ethics, and liberation theology. The result is a foundational text for undergraduate courses in Catholic theological ethics.

Author : Bruce C. Birch,Jacqueline E. Lapsley,Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda,Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451438543

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life by Bruce C. Birch,Jacqueline E. Lapsley,Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda,Larry L. Rasmussen Pdf

Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent churches. These dramatically changed planetary and ecclesial landscapes have led many to conclude that we need a new way of thinking about our collective existence: who are we and what is the nature of our responsibility in this deeply altered world? To address that question, biblical scholars Bruce C. Birch and Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Christian ethicists Larry L. Rasmussen and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda carry on "a new conversation" that engages how Christians are to understand the authority and use of Scripture, the basic elements of any full-bodied Christian ethic attuned to our circumstances, and the nature of our responsibility to our planetary neighbors and creation itself.

Author : Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467459914

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Bioethics by Gilbert Meilaender Pdf

Amid continuing advances in medical research and treatment, Gilbert Meilaender’s Bioethics has long provided thoughtful guidance on many of society’s most difficult moral problems—including abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic experimentation, euthanasia, and much more. In this fourth edition, Meilaender updates much of the data referenced in the book and responds directly to recent developments, such as the CRISPR/Cas9 method of gene editing. Christians seeking discernment in this new decade will appreciate Meilaender’s circumspect writing and his ability to address the nuances of each issue while maintaining strong and clearly stated moral convictions.

Author : D. Stephen Long
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199568864

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Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by D. Stephen Long Pdf

This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity