Honoring the Bios in Lutheran Bioethics

A Lutheran bioethic honors the body by being anti-Gnostic (and finding moral wisdom in the body's limits), by being anti-Pelagian (and requiring the reshaping of our disordered desires), and by being anti-Sadducean (in affirming that the new creation, though continuous with and fulfilling the o...

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Main Author: Meilaender, Gilbert 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2004
In: Dialog
Year: 2004, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 118-124
Further subjects:B reproductive technologies
B Infertility
B Bioethics
B Adoption
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Summary:A Lutheran bioethic honors the body by being anti-Gnostic (and finding moral wisdom in the body's limits), by being anti-Pelagian (and requiring the reshaping of our disordered desires), and by being anti-Sadducean (in affirming that the new creation, though continuous with and fulfilling the old, also transforms and perfects it in ways that go beyond the earthly life we know). Such an approach to bioethics is illustrated here through discussion of the way in which new reproductive technologies may distort our understanding of the relation between the generations, thereby losing sight of the bios in bioethics.
ISSN:1540-6385
Contains:Enthalten in: Dialog
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-2033.2004.00199.x