Freedom in Responsibility: A Response
This paper is a critical response to Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt's article “Freedom in responsibility: On the relevance of ‘sin’ as hermeneutic guiding principle in bioethical decision making.“ Gräb-Schmidt's chief contention is that ethics begins with anthropology, and that moral responsibilit...
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| Language: | English |
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2005
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2005, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-173 |
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| Summary: | This paper is a critical response to Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt's article “Freedom in responsibility: On the relevance of ‘sin’ as hermeneutic guiding principle in bioethical decision making.“ Gräb-Schmidt's chief contention is that ethics begins with anthropology, and that moral responsibility is thereby grounded within a set of given limits. Freedom is distorted into sin when these limits are transgressed. My principal complaint is that her account of the relationship between freedom and sin is grounded in a tragic ontology. Alternatively, I contend that anthropology is grounded in Christology in which freedom is a gift of the Spirit. Consequently, sin is not so much tragic as it marks a refusal of humans to accept their divine election. The issues of human cloning and embryonic stem-cell research are used to exemplify what difference these respective differences might make in a process of moral deliberation. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/13803600500203863 |