After God

After God
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Applied ethics
ISBN: 9780881414998

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.

Bioethics After God

Bioethics After God
Author: Mark J Cherry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780268208295

Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God. Medicine and bioethics are going through profound changes in the Western world. Practices that prior generations would have recognized as morally impermissible, such as abortion, eugenics, and euthanasia, are becoming central components of modern health care. Bioethics after God argues that in the process of rejecting its Christian roots, the Western world has upended traditional understandings of truth that are central to both scientific and moral judgment. The effect is being felt throughout medicine as healthcare professionals increasingly work without the context and guidance provided by traditional Christian ethics. Cherry uses the conceptual framework of "weak bioethics"--bioethics solely informed by secular knowledge--to delve into shifting concepts of health and disease, the active embrace of ethically fraught practices, and technological developments such as brain transplantation and humanoid robots designed for sexual activity. The implications of a bioethics after God are wide-ranging and profound, and Cherry challenges us to consider the repercussions of pushing forward in medicine without the support of a solid ethical foundation.

Bioethics after God

Bioethics after God
Author: Mark J. Cherry
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2024-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 026820831X

Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God. Medicine and bioethics are going through profound changes in the Western world. Practices that prior generations would have recognized as morally impermissible, such as abortion, eugenics, and euthanasia, are becoming central components of modern health care. Bioethics after God argues that in the process of rejecting its Christian roots, the Western world has upended traditional understandings of truth that are central to both scientific and moral judgment. The effect is felt throughout medicine as health care professionals increasingly work without the context and guidance provided by traditional Christian ethics. Cherry uses the conceptual framework of “weak bioethics”—bioethics solely informed by the stark limits of secular morality—to delve into shifting concepts of health and disease, the active embrace of ethically fraught practices, and technological developments such as brain transplantation and humanoid robots designed for sexual activity. The implications of a bioethics after God are wide-ranging and profound, and Cherry challenges us to consider the repercussions of pushing forward in medicine without the support of a solid ethical foundation.

After God

After God
Author: Hugo Tristram Engelhardt (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2017
Genre: Applied ethics
ISBN: 9780881415001

Bioethics

Bioethics
Author: Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-01-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0802867707

Christian vision -- Procreation versus reproduction -- Abortion -- Genetic advance -- Prenatal screening -- Suicide and euthanasia -- Refusing treatment -- Who decides? -- Gifts of the body: organ donation -- Gifts of the body: human experimentation -- Embryos: the smallest of research subjects -- Sickness and health.

Bioethics

Bioethics
Author: Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467459917

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.

Playing God?

Playing God?
Author: John H. Evans
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226222615

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Framework for Understanding the Thinning of a Public Debate2. Setting the Stage: The Eugenicists and the Challenge from Theologians3. Gene Therapy, Advisory Commissions, and the Birth of the Bioethics Profession4. The President's Commission: The "Neutral" Triumph of Formal Rationality5. Regaining Lost Jurisdictional Ground and the Triumph of the Bioethics Profession6. "Reproduction" as the New Jurisdictional Metaphor: Autonomy and the Internal Threat to the Bioethics/Science Jurisdiction7. Conclusion: The Future of Public Bioethics and the HGE DebateAppendix: Methods and TablesNotesWorks CitedIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Bioethics and the Future of Medicine

Bioethics and the Future of Medicine
Author: John Frederic Kilner
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

"The extensive attention devoted to abortion has led Christians for too long to overlook much of the exploding bioethics agenda. Moreover, to focus only on 'issues' is to fail to address the profound changes taking place in the very nature of the medical profession. This book signals the commitment of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity to help expand the church's bioethical vision and to foster a more substantial Christian contribution to the public debate."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

At the Beginning of Life

At the Beginning of Life
Author: Edwin C. Hui
Publisher: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Edwin C. Hui draws on his training as both a medical doctor and a theologian to show how a Christian understanding of personhood sheds light on contemporary biomedical dilemmas.

Does God Need Our Help?

Does God Need Our Help?
Author: John Frederic Kilner
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780842374460

The authors spark discussion and debate on the Bible's words about genetic cloning.