Christian Bioethics: A Guide for Pastors, Health Care Professionals, and Families
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Living in an era of highly technical medicine is comforting and sometimes confusing. How should Christians make life and death decisions? How do we move from an ancient text like the Bible to twenty-first-century questions about organ transplantation, stem-cell research, and human cloning? What kind of care do we owe one another at the end of life? Is euthanasia a Christian option?
Using a dialogue format, an ethicist and physician talk about how to think about thorny ethical issues. Combining their backgrounds in medicine and theology, they deal with real-life moral questions in an accessible way. C. Ben Mitchell and D. Joy Riley let readers eavesdrop on their conversation about the training of doctors, the interpretation of the Bible, and controversial issues like abortion, assisted-suicide, genetic engineering, and in vitro fertilization.
The book examines these topics under three general headings: the taking of life, the making of life, and the faking of life. Christian Bioethics is a guidebook for pastors, health care professionals and families—anyone facing difficult decisions about health care.
- Introduces the field of bioethics to explore how Christians ought to deal with moral questions arising from circumstances faced when seeking medical treatment or possibilities generated by new advances in medical technology
- Engages in real-life moral questions in understandable ways while still being resourceful to clinicians, pastors and students
- Invites readers into the disussion of training doctors, interpreting the Bible and a range of pressing moral issues such as abortion, assisted suicide, genetic engeneering, and in vitro fertilization
With their complementary backrgounds, Mitchell and Riley prove to be an excellent team in their dialogue on Christian bioethics. They present valuable insights and helpful theological perspective for the newcomer to bioethics, and the seasons ethicist will profit from it as well. A fine guide!
Paul Copan, Professor and Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Ben Mitchell and Joy Riley invite readers into their dialogue on profoundly important yet intensely practical issues raised in health care, medical technology, and cutting-edge research. The conversation draws on the history and practice of medicine, theological guidelines, philosophical insights, and case studies to help Christians develop awareness and wisdom about bioethical dilemmas. Riley and Mitchell demystify ethical concepts, medical terminology, and biotechnologu. This highly approachable book is a noteworthy gift to Christians—laity, pastors, students, and clinicians alike.
Pagie Comstock Cunningham, executive director, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Though helpful to all, I particularly encourage pastors to use Christian Bioethics: A Guide for Pastors, Health Care Professionals, and Families to prepare their parishioners for the moral maze of today's culture. Helpful for both sermon preparation and counseling, Mitchell, and Riley's practical biblical wisdom provides guidelines for addressing common bioethical dilemmas. The church should be able to provide these answers.
Gene Rudd, M.D., Senior Vice President, Christian Medical and Dental Associations
- Title: Christian Bioethics: A Guide for Pastors, Health Care Professionals, and Families
- Authors: C. Ben Mitchell, D. Joy Riley
- Series: B&H Studies in Christian Ethics
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bioethics; Christian Ethics; Medical Ethics
- ISBNs: 9781430077329, 9781433684272, 9781433671142, 1433684276, 143367114X, 1430077328
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433684272
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-01-16T19:01:43Z