Moral Pluralism and Christian Bioethics: On H. T. Engelhardt Jr.'s After God
This article retraces progression of Engelhardt's work so as to place After God in broader context. In The Foundations of Bioethics, Engelhardt argues that given the moral pluralism that is at the core of postmodernity, only a merely formal morality of permission can bind moral strangers in pea...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-182 |
| Review of: | After God (Yonkers, New York : St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2017) (Savarino, Luca)
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| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology NCA Ethics NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This article retraces progression of Engelhardt's work so as to place After God in broader context. In The Foundations of Bioethics, Engelhardt argues that given the moral pluralism that is at the core of postmodernity, only a merely formal morality of permission can bind moral strangers in peaceful coexistence. In The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, Engelhardt presents a bioethics that binds Orthodox Christian moral friends. After God shows itself more pessimistic about the possibility of a merely formal morality of moral friends and calls traditional Christians to wage a culture war. These reflections close with some criticisms of Engelhardt's philosophical-theological project. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbx008 |