| Description |
x, 346 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
A critical issues in bioethics series book |
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Critical issues in bioethics.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Contending for moral first things : Christian social ethics and postconsensus culture -- Natural law and the Christian tradition -- Natural law and the Protestant prejudice -- Moral law, Christian belief, and social ethics -- Contending for moral first things in ethical and bioethical debates : critical categories, part 1 -- Contending for moral first things in ethical and bioethical debates : critical categories, part 2 -- Ethics, bioethics, and the natural law, a test case : euthanasia yesterday and today -- The natural law and public morality : second thoughts on what is at stake |
| Summary |
"In this volume J. Daryl Charles offers a trenchant response to the dearth of Protestant thinking on common-ground moral discourse. Retrieving the Natural Law restates "moral first things" and uniquely applies natural-law thinking to crucial current bioethical issues."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-332) and index |
| Subject |
Natural law.
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Ethics.
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| LC no. |
2007044579 |
| ISBN |
9780802825940 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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080282594X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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