Theology and Bioethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Theology, Science, and Bioethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Religion and the Renaissance of Medical Ethics in the United States: 1965–1975

      • Leroy Walters

      Pages 3-16

   3. Theology and Science: Their Difference as a Source of Interaction in Ethics

      • George P. Schner

      Pages 17-25

   4. Scientific and Religious Aspects of Bioethics

      • Charles Hartshorne

      Pages 27-44

   5. Hartshorne, Theology, and the Nameless God

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 45-48

   6. The Potential of Theology for Ethics

      • William K. Frankena

      Pages 49-64

   7. The Role of Theology in Bioethics

      • Basil Mitchell

      Pages 65-78

   8. Looking for God and Finding the Abyss: Bioethics and Natural Theology

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 79-91

3. Foundations and Frontiers in Religious Bioethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Theology and Bioethics: Christian Foundations

      • Richard A. McCormick

      Pages 95-113

   3. Theological Frontiers: Implications for Bioethics

      • Langdon Gilkey

      Pages 115-133

   4. Contextuality and Convenant: The Pertinence of Social Theory and Theology to Bioethics

      • Douglas Sturm

      Pages 135-161

   5. Feminist Theology and Bioethics

      • Margaret A. Farley

      Pages 163-185

   6. Doing Ethics in a Plural World

      • Mark Juergensmeyer

      Pages 187-201

4. Religious Reasoning about Bioethics and Medical Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church

      • Stanley Hauerwas

      Pages 205-224

   3. Love and Justice in Christian Biomedical Ethics

      • James F. Childress

      Pages 225-243

   4. Contemporary Jewish Boethics: A Critical Assessment

      • Ronald M. Green

      Pages 245-266

   5. Medical Loyalty: Dimensions and Problems of a Rich Idea

      • David H. Smith

      Pages 267-282

We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism. For a variety of rather complex reasons we continue to split apart and treat as radical opposites body and spirit, medicine and religion, sacred and secular, private and public, love and justice, men and women. Though this is still our strong tendency, we are beginning to­ discover both the futility and the harm of such dualistic splitting. Peoples of many ancient cultures might smile at the belatedness of our discovery concerning the commonalities of medicine and religion. A cur­ sory glance back at ancient Egypt, Samaria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome would disclose a common thread - the close union of religion and medicine. Both were centrally concerned with healing, health, and wholeness. The person was understood as a unity of body, mind, and spirit. The priest and the physician frequently were combined in the same individual. One of the important contributions of this significant volume of essays is the sustained attack upon dualism. From a variety of vantage points, virtually all of the authors unmask the varied manifestations of dualism in religion and medicine, urging a more holistic approach. Since the editor has provided an excellent summary of each article, I shall not attempt to comment on specific contributions. Rather , I wish to highlight three 1 broad themes which I find notable for theological ethics.

• Biomedical ethics
• Ethics
• Medical Ethics
• Religion
• bioethics
• health

• Institute of Religion, and Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

  Earl E. Shelp

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