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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... human biotechnology , and ( crucially ) ethical anthropocentrism . He approaches these writers and issues as a philosopher and theologian , rather than as a scientist ; however , his earlier writings show that he has the intelligence to ...
... human biotechnology , and ( crucially ) ethical anthropocentrism . He approaches these writers and issues as a philosopher and theologian , rather than as a scientist ; however , his earlier writings show that he has the intelligence to ...
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... human animals and our ' environment ' ( see especially How to Think about the Earth ) . Various essays on non - human animals have been collected in Animals and their Moral Standing , and on the political life of the human animal in The ...
... human animals and our ' environment ' ( see especially How to Think about the Earth ) . Various essays on non - human animals have been collected in Animals and their Moral Standing , and on the political life of the human animal in The ...
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... human nature ) that human beings are animals of a peculiar kind : ' spiritual amphibia ' who are the meeting point of ' merely biological ' and ' merely angelic or intellectual life ' . It has also been axiomatic that human beings were ...
... human nature ) that human beings are animals of a peculiar kind : ' spiritual amphibia ' who are the meeting point of ' merely biological ' and ' merely angelic or intellectual life ' . It has also been axiomatic that human beings were ...
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... human animals are also denizens of the spirit world , and human beings , just as such , are nothing special , though a particular tribe may be . In Hindu 2 Karl Marx , in his Criticism of Hegel's Philosophy of Right , tr . Annette Jolin ...
... human animals are also denizens of the spirit world , and human beings , just as such , are nothing special , though a particular tribe may be . In Hindu 2 Karl Marx , in his Criticism of Hegel's Philosophy of Right , tr . Annette Jolin ...
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... human beings we do more than eat , drink , mate and sleep - we also dream , think , worship and aspire ; our being thus human gives us a special relationship with cosmic reality ; how we are to behave has something to do with how things ...
... human beings we do more than eat , drink , mate and sleep - we also dream , think , worship and aspire ; our being thus human gives us a special relationship with cosmic reality ; how we are to behave has something to do with how things ...
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