Begotten or Made? A New Edition for the 21st Century
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
How is it that we have so lost sight of the meaning of the human person that our very biological sex is seen as just another medical problem to be solved by technique? In a society that has rejected all moral norms, that refuses to honor God as Creator, what hope do we have of stemming the tide of scientific intervention into even the most sacred dimensions of our humanity? In this prescient volume, originally published in 1984, the eminent theological ethicist Oliver O’Donovan offers a penetrating analysis of our confusion over human nature and the proper boundaries of medical science.
O’Donovan exposes the assumptions that underlie new technologies that presume to “make” human life, and offers Christians the philosophical clarity they need to navigate the torrent of increasingly baffling ethical questions they face.
Today we need this wisdom more than ever, which is why the Davenant Institute is proud to be publishing this affordable new edition for the 21st century, complete with a new introduction by Matthew Lee Anderson and a retrospective by the author.
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- Offers a penetrating analysis of our confusion over human nature and the proper boundaries of medical science.
- Exposes the assumptions that underlie new technologies that presume to “make” human life.
- Offers Christians the philosophical clarity they need to navigate the torrent of increasingly baffling ethical questions they face.
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the 2nd Edition (Matthew Lee Anderson)
- Preface to the 1st Edition (Oliver O’Donovan)
- I. Medicine and the Liberal Revolution
- II. Sex by Artifice
- III. Procreation by Donor
- IV. And Who Is a Person?
- V. In a Glass Darkly
- Afterword to the 2nd Edition (Oliver O’Donovan)
Though written decades ago, this little book by O’Donovan is a masterpiece and still one of the best reflections on what it means to be human in our modern world. It transformed my own thinking on key issues and deserves to be widely read by a new generation of theologians, philosophers, and pastors.
–Carl R. Trueman (Grove City College)
Oliver O’Donovan is a giant of our time. This is among his most important books, and it becomes more relevant and necessary every day. A prophetic classic!
–Matthew Levering (James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary)
Forty years after it first appeared, Begotten or Made? may be more relevant than ever. Oliver O’Donovan displays the best of theological method in engaging contemporary moral, cultural, and political questions in thinking holistically about how technology can support or undermine human dignity and human flourishing, and how it can transform our thinking and living. The chapter on sexual identity and transgender ‘medicine’ is worth the price of the book alone.
–Ryan T. Anderson (President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement)
- Title: Begotten or Made? A New Edition for the 21st Century
- Authors: Oliver O'Donovan, Matthew Lee Anderson
- Publisher: The Davenant Institute
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 135
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781949716146, 1949716147
- Resource ID: LLS:BGTTNR21STCNTRY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-09T16:50:02Z