At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr

At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr
ISBN-10
0980209498
ISBN-13
9780980209495
Category
Medical
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
2014-05-14
Publisher
M & M Scrivener Press
Authors
Mark J. Cherry, Ana Smith Iltis

Description

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.

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