Biology and Christian EthicsThis stimulating and wide-ranging book mounts a profound enquiry into some of the most pressing questions of our age, by examining the relationship between biological science and Christianity. The history of biological discovery is explored from the point of view of a leading philosopher and ethicist. What effect should modern biological theory and practice have on Christian understanding of ethics? How much of that theory and practice should Christians endorse? Can Christians, for example, agree that biological changes are not governed by transcendent values, or that there are no clear or essential boundaries between species? To what extent can 'Nature' set our standards? Professor Clark takes a reasoned look at biological theory since Darwin and argues that an orthodox Christian philosophy is better able to accommodate the truth of such theory than is the sort of progressive, meliorist interpretation of Christian doctrine which is usually offered as the properly 'modern' option. |
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... experience and motivation , in the light of current biological theory and ethological reports ( The Nature of the Beast ) . Later books were directed rather at cosmological and epistemological aspects of the philosophy of religion ...
... experience and motivation , in the light of current biological theory and ethological reports ( The Nature of the Beast ) . Later books were directed rather at cosmological and epistemological aspects of the philosophy of religion ...
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... experience is that scientists are as obdurate in their convictions as anyone , and that the institutions of peer review and academic rivalry have often made it difficult to question fundamentals . + ' Believers ' and academic ...
... experience is that scientists are as obdurate in their convictions as anyone , and that the institutions of peer review and academic rivalry have often made it difficult to question fundamentals . + ' Believers ' and academic ...
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... experience was created by one of a pair of deities , and that it was the other god who was responsible for our grasp of real virtue , and our only hope of escape from misery . David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus ( Gollancz : London 1965 ...
... experience was created by one of a pair of deities , and that it was the other god who was responsible for our grasp of real virtue , and our only hope of escape from misery . David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus ( Gollancz : London 1965 ...
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