Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age / Edition 1

by Scott Rae, Paul Cox

Overview

The authors assess various secular approaches to bioethics that are particularly influential today and develop a framework for a Christian approach to assist people in addressing the many pressing issues in the field. Throughout, the authors touch on the numerous debated issues in bioethics though they are primarily concerned to give an account of the central theological notions crucial to an informed Christian perspective on bioethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802845955
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/15/1999
Series:	Critical Issues in Bioethics (CIB)
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Paul Cox is one of England's foremost illustrators, whosework includes editions of such classics as The Wind inthe Willows and many of P. G. Wodehouse's books. Healso illustrated The Train to Glasgow (Clarion).His drawings appear often in a wide variety of magazines,including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker,and Esquire. He lives in Sussex, England.

Scott B. Rae is professor of biblical studies and Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California. His other books include Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies.

Paul M. Cox is associate professor of biblical studies and Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. His other books include An Approach to Doing Evangelical Ethics.

Table of Contents

PART I: INFLUENTIAL APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS

1. Religious Approaches to Bioethics
2. Secular Approaches to Bioethics

PART II: PILLARS OF A CHRISTIAN APPROACH

3. Medical Technology in Theological Perspective
4. The Image of God and the Sacredness of Human Life
5. The Personhood of the Patient
6. Autonomy and the Common Good
7. Death as a Conquered Enemy
8. Distributive Justice and Health Care Delivery

PART III: EMPLOYING A CHRISTIAN APPROACH

9. Christian Bioethics in a Secular Culture
10. A Model for Bioethical Decision Making

Editorial Reviews

Valuable to medical practitioners, teachers, students, and general readers, this volume makes a stimulating and substantial contribution to a Christian bioethics that can effectively engage the pluralistic culture in which health care is now practiced.

Issues in Law & Medicine

Bioethics is well researched and provides excellent footnoting for those desiring to do further study on the issues or perspectives.... The book is a good resource for anyone in the health care arena who desires to strengthen their knowledge of bioethical issues and become equipped to articulate a Christian perspective on them in our pluralistic world.

Journal of Christian Nursing

This is a solid attempt to write an unabashedly Christian medical ethics text, one that is scholarly and presents other points of view. Would that secular thinkers presented Christian views of medical ethics as well as Rae and Cox present the secular.

Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith

Given the pluralistic world in which decisions must be made, this book offers to a Christian practitioner, client or family member reminders of the religious bases for thinking and deciding. The authors' documentation as well as their systematic approach to ethical decision-making provides a guide that is not only useful but also grounded in belief.

Catholic Library World

Warmly recommended as an excellent and readable contribution to the ongoing debate on the place of religion in current bioethics.

Expository Times

Bioethics...builds a solid foundation upon which Christians can reliably stand while puzzling out the sometimes dizzying complexities of the new biotechnology..... Rae and Cox have done impressive work in showing that the biblical worldview can cogently speak to even the laboratories and operating rooms of the 21st century.

Christianity Today