The foundations of Christian bioethics / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Christian ethics.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lisse (Netherlands) ; Exton, Pa. : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. It opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction and cloning to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also paid to the allocation of scarce resources in healthcare and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients and healthcare institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Biblical Quotations

Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgements

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

Notes

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

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

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

Moral and Theological 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

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 Ethics

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

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

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

Christian Bioethics in a Post-Christian World

Living after Christendom

Will Austin, Texas, be the Fourth Rome? When will the Orthodox Mounted Posse Ride into Constantinople and Restore the Second Rome? Would St. Autonomous Burn down Abortion Clinics? How Can One Teach Bioethics?

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-78158-4

9786611781583

0-9802094-6-3

OCLC:

259746179