Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions (Ebook)

By David VanDrunen

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Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions (Ebook)

By David VanDrunen

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Just about everyone will face a difficult bioethics decision at some point. In this book a theologian, ethicist, and lawyer equips Christians to make such decisions based on biblical truth, wisdom, and virtue.

Though a relatively new discipline, bioethics has generated extraordinary interest due to a number of socially pressing issues. Bioethics and the Christian Life places bioethics within the holistic context of the Christian life, both developing a general Christian approach to making bioethics decisions and addressing a number of specific, controversial areas of bioethics.

Clear, concise, and well-organized, the book is divided into three sections. The first lays the theological foundation for bioethics decision-making and discusses the importance of wisdom and virtue in working through these issues. The second section addresses beginning-of-life issues, such as abortion, stem-cell research, and infertility treatments. The third section covers end-of-life issues, such as living wills, accepting and refusing medical treatment, and treatment of patients in permanent vegetative states.


Author:

David VanDrunen

David VanDrunen (PhD, Loyola University Chicago) is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, California.

Product Details

Format: Ebook
Page Count: 256
Size: 6.0 in x 9.0 in
ISBN-UPC: 9781433521836
ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-2183-6
PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-1265-0
Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-1266-7
Published: October 31, 2009