{"title":"The Consumerist Moral Babel of the Post-Modern Family","authors":"M. Cherry","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBV006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBV006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"144-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBV006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60683259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On the Christian understanding, life comes from God and every one of us is created in the Imago Dei; the child must not be treated as a commodity. Designed to satisfy adult desires, reproductive technologies bypassing sexual intercourse have led to new kinds of family not previously envisaged. These new kinds of family raise questions about adult attitudes towards children. In support of the Roman Catholic magisterial view, it is argued that gametal donation is unacceptable, because the gametes exchanged are treated as commodities, and so indirectly the child is also treated as a commodity. IVF and husband insemination are, however, deemed acceptable, because what matters is not whether the child is conceived by an individual act of spousal intercourse, but whether it is conceived within a loving spousal relationship between a man and a woman and welcomed as a gift.
{"title":"Who Is My Mother and Who Are My Brothers","authors":"A. Sutton","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBV005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBV005","url":null,"abstract":"On the Christian understanding, life comes from God and every one of us is created in the Imago Dei; the child must not be treated as a commodity. Designed to satisfy adult desires, reproductive technologies bypassing sexual intercourse have led to new kinds of family not previously envisaged. These new kinds of family raise questions about adult attitudes towards children. In support of the Roman Catholic magisterial view, it is argued that gametal donation is unacceptable, because the gametes exchanged are treated as commodities, and so indirectly the child is also treated as a commodity. IVF and husband insemination are, however, deemed acceptable, because what matters is not whether the child is conceived by an individual act of spousal intercourse, but whether it is conceived within a loving spousal relationship between a man and a woman and welcomed as a gift.","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"166-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBV005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60683248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Beliefs and Reproductive Counseling Practices in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod","authors":"Rev. Kevin E. Voss","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBV004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBV004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"199-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBV004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60682540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioethics and the Family: Family Building in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"A. Iltis, M. Cherry","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBV007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBV007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"135-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBV007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60683319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pope Francis’ Potential Impact on American Bioethics","authors":"John A. Gallagher","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBU048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBU048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"11-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBU048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60682884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whither the Future? Pope Francis and Roman Catholic Bioethics","authors":"A. Iltis","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBU049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBU049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBU049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60682933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Theological Framework for Roman Catholic Bioethics: Pope Francis Makes a Significant Change in the Moral Framework for Bioethics","authors":"H. Engelhardt","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBU046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBU046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"130-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBU046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60682824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While Pope Francis’ popularity grows with the media, disenfranchised Roman Catholics, and groups usually unfriendly toward Catholicism, he arouses concern among Christian traditionalists. Much unease comes from mixed messages utilizing a kind of duplicity different from heretical double-truth teachings of the Latin Middle Ages. This use of alternate truths for different audiences reverses the medieval employment, offering the public not the literal, traditional sense (which the Latin Averroists saw as suited for mass consumption) but symbolic or figurative versions once reserved for the sophisticated and erudite, while insisting that more robustly faithful elites still embrace the stricter teachings of the Church. Moreover, this “reversed” double truth can itself be doubled yet again, if the higher elites privately believe the same, weaker, less robust truths disseminated to the masses, although holding them in a more rationalized, sophisticated form. Modernized double truth is not new, but previously the papacy enforced a singularity for Church teaching. With Pope Francis, however, the doubling of truth appears at the peak of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. This has profound consequences for bioethics, (1) constituting a third version of Catholic moral teaching, following both the Tridentine manualist version, and the rationalist, Vatican II modernist rendition, to form a post-modern approach to moral truth, (2) subverting traditional Catholic bioethicists, while calling into question the Roman Catholic Church as a reliable ally against militant secularism in current bioethics. Ancient Christianity as exemplified in the Orthodox Church offers a better model for bioethics, due to its basis in asceticism, worship, and a noetic approach to truth that is not dependent on the vicissitudes of discursive rationality or a chief primate to arbitrate them.
{"title":"Pope Francis and the Perils of Double Truth","authors":"Bruce V. Foltz, P. Schweitzer","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBU047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBU047","url":null,"abstract":"While Pope Francis’ popularity grows with the media, disenfranchised Roman Catholics, and groups usually unfriendly toward Catholicism, he arouses concern among Christian traditionalists. Much unease comes from mixed messages utilizing a kind of duplicity different from heretical double-truth teachings of the Latin Middle Ages. This use of alternate truths for different audiences reverses the medieval employment, offering the public not the literal, traditional sense (which the Latin Averroists saw as suited for mass consumption) but symbolic or figurative versions once reserved for the sophisticated and erudite, while insisting that more robustly faithful elites still embrace the stricter teachings of the Church. Moreover, this “reversed” double truth can itself be doubled yet again, if the higher elites privately believe the same, weaker, less robust truths disseminated to the masses, although holding them in a more rationalized, sophisticated form. Modernized double truth is not new, but previously the papacy enforced a singularity for Church teaching. With Pope Francis, however, the doubling of truth appears at the peak of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. This has profound consequences for bioethics, (1) constituting a third version of Catholic moral teaching, following both the Tridentine manualist version, and the rationalist, Vatican II modernist rendition, to form a post-modern approach to moral truth, (2) subverting traditional Catholic bioethicists, while calling into question the Roman Catholic Church as a reliable ally against militant secularism in current bioethics. Ancient Christianity as exemplified in the Orthodox Church offers a better model for bioethics, due to its basis in asceticism, worship, and a noetic approach to truth that is not dependent on the vicissitudes of discursive rationality or a chief primate to arbitrate them.","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"21 1","pages":"89-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBU047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60682872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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