Bioethics and the Christian Life

A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions

David VanDrunen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2009
Crossway Books (Verlag)
978-1-4335-0144-9 (ISBN)

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An introduction to bioethics decision making within the context of the theological principles, wisdom, and virtue underlying the broader Christian life. For thoughtful laypeople, pastors, elders, and seminarians.

Just about everyone will face a difficult bioethics decision at some point. In this book a theologian, ethicist, and lawyer equips Christians to make such decisions based on biblical truth, wisdom, and virtue.

Though a relatively new discipline, bioethics has generated extraordinary interest due to a number of socially pressing issues. Bioethics and the Christian Life places bioethics within the holistic context of the Christian life, both developing a general Christian approach to making bioethics decisions and addressing a number of specific, controversial areas of bioethics.

Clear, concise, and well-organized, the book is divided into three sections. The first lays the theological foundation for bioethics decision making and discusses the importance of wisdom and virtue in working through these issues. The second section addresses beginning-of-life issues, such as abortion, stem-cell research, and infertility treatments. The third section covers end-of-life issues, such as living wills, accepting and refusing medical treatment, and treatment of patients in permanent vegetative states.

David VanDrunen (PhD, Loyola University Chicago) is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, California.

Preface
Introduction: The Christian Confronts Bioethics
Part 1: Foundations of Bioethics

Christianity and Health Care in a Fallen World
Theological Doctrines
Christian Virtues

Part 2: The Beginning of Life

Marriage, Procreation, and Contraception
Assisted Reproduction
The Human Embryo

Part 3: The End of Life

Approaching Death: Dying as a Way of Life
Suicide, Euthanasia, and the Distinction between Killing and Letting Die
Accepting and Forgoing Treatment

Conclusion (with a Bibliographic Essay)
General Index
Scripture Index

Verlagsort	Wheaton, IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	359 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4335-0144-9 / 1433501449
ISBN-13	978-1-4335-0144-9 / 9781433501449
Zustand	Neuware