Questions of Life and Death: Christian Faith And Medical Intervention

by Richard Harries

Publisher:

SPCK Publishing

, 2011

Overview

This book, by a major author in this area, throws light on key Life and Death issues such as fertility research and treatment, and assisted suicide.

Richard Harries, as a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority from 2003-9, and chair of its Ethics and Law Advisory Committee, has been at the heart of thinking about issues include cloning, human-animal hybrids and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

He shows that the Western Christian tradition is compatible with work in this area.

In the House of Lords he was involved in debates on euthanasia, and is critical of much current thinking on the subject.

Product Details

• Title: Questions of Life and Death: Christian Faith And Medical Intervention
• Author: Richard Harries
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 160
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780281065547, 9780281062416, 0281062412, 0281065543
• Resource ID: LLS:9780281065547
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-11-12T14:04:06Z

About Richard Harries

Richard Harries, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor of Theology at King’s College, London. On his retirement as Bishop of Oxford (1987-2006) he was made a life peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth). He is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Hearing God in Poetry (SPCK, 2021), Seeing God in Art (SPCK, 2022) and his moving autobiography The Shaping of a Soul: a life taken by surprise (John Hunt 2023). Art and the Beauty of God (Continuum, 1993) was selected as book of the year by Anthony Burgess in The Observer. A much loved voice on BBC’s Today programme, he has contributed to ‘Thought for the Day’ for more than 50 years.