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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957790403321

Titolo

At the roots of Christian bioethics : critical essays on the thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. / / edited by Ana Smith Iltis and Mark J. Cherry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem, MA, : M & M Scrivener Press, 2010

ISBN

0-9802094-9-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IltisAna Smith

CherryMark J

Disciplina

241/.64957

Soggetti

Bioethics

Bioethics - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Foreword""; ""Chapter  1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13""; ""Contributors""; ""Index ""

Sommario/riassunto

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.