The foundations of Christian bioethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018 |
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| Imprint: | Lisse [The Netherlands] ; Exton, PA : Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, c2000. |
| Description: | xxiv, 414 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4410571 |
Table of Contents:
- Biblical Quotations
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. From Christian Bioethics to Secular Bioethics: The Establishment of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Morality
- Can Morality be Sectarian?
- Christian Bioethics: Confused and Eclipsed
- Christian vs. Secular Bioethics: The Disappearance of a Difference
- Moral Crises and the Medieval Faith in Reason
- From the Reformation and the Enlightenment to Secular Bioethics
- The Enlightenment and its Dirty Hands
- Faith in Secular Rationality Unshaken: Secular Medical Ethics and the Medical Humanities
- Why a Canonical, Content-full Secular Bioethics Cannot be Justified in General Secular Terms: Content Requires Assumptions
- From a Libertarian to a Liberal Cosmopolitan: The Background of Post-Traditional Christianity
- Christian Bioethics Reconsidered
- 2. At the Roots of Bioethics: Reason, Faith, and the Unity of Morality
- Religious and Secular Ethics: Rethinking the Project of Morality
- Pluralism and Conflict in Ethics and Bioethics: The Right, the Good, the Particular, and God
- Immanuel Kant and his As-If God
- The Necessity of Contingency: Hegel and the Justification of Moral Particularity
- Rationality, Belief, and Kierkegaard: Being a Christian in the Post-Christian Age
- Reason, Faith, and Bioethics
- 3. Christian Bioethics as a Human Project: Taking Immanence Seriously
- The Enlightenment's Bequest
- Knowledge, Morality, and Religion as Limited Human Projects
- Three Visions of the Secular Cosmopolis: Living in a World Deaf to God
- Christianity Transformed: Towards a Christian Bioethics Without Transcendence
- Christian Bioethics Reconsidered
- 4. Bioethics and Transcendence: At the Heart of the Culture Wars
- Sects, Cults, Fundamentalism, and Traditional Christian Bioethics
- From Discursive Reason to Spiritual Change
- Disbelief: A Moral Choice, Not a Miscalculation
- Christian Bioethics: The Knowledge of the Heart and the Natural Law
- Nature, Natural Law, and the Fall
- Knowledge as a Spiritual Journey
- Christian Bioethics and Theological Knowledge
- Moral Theology, Christian Bioethics, and the Community of Knowers
- Knowing Truly: Bishops, Councils, Popes, and Prophets
- Two Senses of Theology, Two Senses of Christian Bioethics
- Bioethics in Time and with Persons
- 5. Procreation: Reproduction, Cloning, Abortion, and Birth
- Out of Step: The Traditional Christian Bioethics of Sexuality versus the Emerging Secular Liberal Cosmopolitan Consensus
- Bioethics as a Lived Ethic
- The Mystery of Marriage
- Sexuality: Rightly and Wrongly Directed
- The Fruitful Union of Adam and Eve: Seeking Help to Reproduce
- Cloning, Making Embryos, and Using Embryos
- Contraception and a World Well Populated
- Sterilization, Sex-change Operations, Alterations in Sexual Identity, and Genetic Engineering
- Premarital Sex, Contraception for the Unmarried, and AIDS
- Abortion, Miscarriage, and Birth
- Summary: Why a Christian Bioethics of Reproduction is so Strange
- 6. Suffering, Disease, Dying, and Death: The Search for Meaning
- What Does it All Mean? Facing Finitude
- Death, Temptation, and Sin: The Cosmic Narrative
- Against Medicine as an Idol: Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
- Why This is all so Different
- Suicide and Euthanasia
- Death and Transplantation
- Miracles, Sins, Devils, and Forgiveness
- 7. Providing Health Care: Consent, Conflicts of Interest, the Allocation of Medical Resources, and Religious Integrity
- Putting Medicine in its Place: Health and the Pursuit of Salvation
- Consent, Deceit, and Physicians: Free and Informed Consent Reconsidered
- Providing Health Care in a Post-Christian Age
- Quarantining and Secularizing Christianity: Religion as a Private Matter
- The Integrity of Christian Health Care Institutions
- 8. Christian Bioethics in a Post-Christian World
- Living after Christendom
- Will Austin, Texas, be the Fourth Rome?
- Index
