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Submit a ProposalAt the Roots of Christian Bioethics
 | Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr Edited by Anna Smith Iltis and Mark J. Cherry Copyright: 2010 | Status: Published ISBN: 9780976404187 | Hardcover | 1 lb 336 pages Price: $44.95 USD  |
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At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt's search for ultimate foundations and his pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice.
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The book should be read by bioethicists, philosophers, religious scholars, and others working in ethics or philosophy of medicine, or public policy.
The book should be read by bioethicists, philosophers, religious scholars, and others working in ethics or philosophy of medicine, or public policy.
Description
At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s search for ultimate foundations – his pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice. Engelhardt has been the most influential, cogent, but critical voice within bioethics of the past several decades. In The Foundations of Bioethics (1986; 1996 second edition), Engelhardt articulated the stark limits of secular bioethics – morality without God. Given the limits of general secular reason to secure unequivocal moral foundations, secular morality and political authority is strictly libertarian, created through the actual agreements of actual persons. It is this unflinching libertarianism for which Engelhardt is perhaps best known.
With the publication of The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (2000), Engelhardt completed the previously one-sided picture. Here Engelhardt articulated a detailed and deeply serious account of Christian bioethics – morality secure in the knowledge of the one true God. The Foundations of Christian Bioethics specified bioethics set within the Holy Traditional Orthodox Christianity of the first millennium, which is all-encompassing, transcendentally oriented, frequently mystical, and framed in terms of the single-minded struggle towards ultimate salvation.
The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological and topical contributions to bioethics, political theory, and Christian theology. Each contributor explores Engelhardt's diagnosis of the contemporary social and cultural crisis, seeking to make sense of the decidedly post-Christian and often openly anti-Christian ethics that dominates public morality and politic policy. Each author investigates Engelhardt's personal and tireless enquiry to secure ultimate moral foundations as well as to recognize the full implications.
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At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s search for ultimate foundations – his pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice. Engelhardt has been the most influential, cogent, but critical voice within bioethics of the past several decades. In The Foundations of Bioethics (1986; 1996 second edition), Engelhardt articulated the stark limits of secular bioethics – morality without God. Given the limits of general secular reason to secure unequivocal moral foundations, secular morality and political authority is strictly libertarian, created through the actual agreements of actual persons. It is this unflinching libertarianism for which Engelhardt is perhaps best known.
With the publication of The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (2000), Engelhardt completed the previously one-sided picture. Here Engelhardt articulated a detailed and deeply serious account of Christian bioethics – morality secure in the knowledge of the one true God. The Foundations of Christian Bioethics specified bioethics set within the Holy Traditional Orthodox Christianity of the first millennium, which is all-encompassing, transcendentally oriented, frequently mystical, and framed in terms of the single-minded struggle towards ultimate salvation.
The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological and topical contributions to bioethics, political theory, and Christian theology. Each contributor explores Engelhardt's diagnosis of the contemporary social and cultural crisis, seeking to make sense of the decidedly post-Christian and often openly anti-Christian ethics that dominates public morality and politic policy. Each author investigates Engelhardt's personal and tireless enquiry to secure ultimate moral foundations as well as to recognize the full implications.
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Reviews
"This book of essays commenting on Engelhardt's work helps clarify what Engelhardt is about and why he remains important. Engelhardt is a philosopher of difference, not unlike many of the great philosophers of the 20th century. For readers who wish to understand Engelhardt, the essays in this volume elucidate the complexities of his thought." JAMA
"This book of essays commenting on Engelhardt's work helps clarify what Engelhardt is about and why he remains important. Engelhardt is a philosopher of difference, not unlike many of the great philosophers of the 20th century. For readers who wish to understand Engelhardt, the essays in this volume elucidate the complexities of his thought." JAMA
"Tris Engelhardt has done more than any other figure in contemporary bioethics to bring the resources of the entire history of philosophy to bear on the ethical issues that emerge from contemporary biomedicine. His views are always provocative and frequently ground-breaking. These essays provide a fresh look at many of the themes he has explored throughout his career. Highly recommended for those who want to come to terms with the views of this giant of contemporary bioethics."
-- David Solomon, W.P. and H.B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
-- David Solomon, W.P. and H.B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
"This is a very important volume. Engelhardt through his publications and his role in editing the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, the book series Philosophy and Medicine, and the journal Christian Bioethics helped bring bioethics into existence as a field of scholarship. He shaped the character of that field. Yet a puzzle remains. In his early publications, chief among them The Foundations of Bioethics (Oxford, 1986, 1996) and Bioethics and Secular Humanism (Trinity Press International, 1991), he developed a bold sketch of the requirements of a secular morality that could transcend moral pluralism and the plurality of bioethics. Then in The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (Scrivener, 2000) he laid out the morality of bioethics supported by the Christianity of the first millennium. There is then the question, are these two Engelhardts and these two bodies of work radically different? This volume shows that the two Engelhardts are organically bound together. The Engelhardt of The Foundations of Christian Bioethics addresses questions raised but unanswerable by the Engelhardt of The Foundations of Bioethics. This volume is indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand the fabric of the contemporary phenomenon of bioethics." -- Stephen A. Erickson, E. Wilson Lyon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
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Author / Editor Details
Ana Iltis completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, Texas and joined the faculty of the Department for Health Care Ethics in January 2003. Her specializations include the ethics of human subjects research, and organizational ethics. She is currently Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; Associate Editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; and co-editor of the book series Annals of Bioethics. She is a member of the Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board. She is editor or co-editor of 5 books as well as the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and other publications.
Ana Iltis completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, Texas and joined the faculty of the Department for Health Care Ethics in January 2003. Her specializations include the ethics of human subjects research, and organizational ethics. She is currently Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; Associate Editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; and co-editor of the book series Annals of Bioethics. She is a member of the Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board. She is editor or co-editor of 5 books as well as the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and other publications.
Mark J. Cherry is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is author of Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (Georgetown University Press, 2005). He serves as editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, senior associate editor of Christian Bioethics, editor-in-chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum, editor of the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, and book series co-editor of the Annals of Bioethics. He is editor or co-editor of eight books as well as the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and other publications.
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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
PHI 005000: Philosophy/Ethics & Moral Philosophy
REL 067000: Religion/Christianity/Orthodox
POL 028000: Political Science/Public Policy
BIC CODES
HPQ: Ethics & moral philosophy
HRC: Christianty
JPA: Political Science & Theory
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