Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions - Softcover

VanDrunen, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433501449 ISBN 13: 9781433501449

Publisher: Crossway, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crossway
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433501449
• ISBN 13: 9781433501449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256