What Is Christian About Christian Bioethics? A Reformed, Covenantal Proposal

This article argues that it is proper and helpful to distinguish a common bioethics from a distinctively Christian bioethics, and to regard both as legitimate and worthy of pursuit. "Common bioethics" refers to a normative moral inquiry seeking to identify the moral obligations regarding h...

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主要作者: VanDrunen, David 1971- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: [2015]
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2015, 卷: 21, 发布: 3, Pages: 334-355
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KDD Protestant Church
NCA Ethics
NCH Medical ethics
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总结:This article argues that it is proper and helpful to distinguish a common bioethics from a distinctively Christian bioethics, and to regard both as legitimate and worthy of pursuit. "Common bioethics" refers to a normative moral inquiry seeking to identify the moral obligations regarding health care incumbent on all human beings, as created and sustained by God. "Christian bioethics" refers to a normative moral inquiry that explores how the reality of their redemption in Christ ought to shape the way Christians think about issues of life and death and thus practice and receive health care. Thus, what is Christian about Christian bioethics is not that faithful believers are its practitioners (although this is true), but that it investigates how moral reflection on life, health, and death is shaped by what is unique to the Christian experience-that is, salvation in Christ.
ISSN:1744-4195
Contains:Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbv012