Biology and Christian EthicsCambridge University Press, 18/09/2000 - 332 من الصفحات This 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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الصفحة i
... Animals ( 1977 ) , The Nature of the Beast ( 1982 ) , Civil Peace and Sacred Order ( 1989 ) , Animals and their Moral Standing ( 1997 ) , God , Religion and Reality ( 1988 ) and The Political Animal ( 1999 ) , as well as articles in ...
... Animals ( 1977 ) , The Nature of the Beast ( 1982 ) , Civil Peace and Sacred Order ( 1989 ) , Animals and their Moral Standing ( 1997 ) , God , Religion and Reality ( 1988 ) and The Political Animal ( 1999 ) , as well as articles in ...
الصفحة ix
... Animals ( 1977 ) and The Nature of the Beast ( 1982 ) with a particular concern about animals and the environment . His interest in the philosophy of religion and in theological concerns was clearly established in his subsequent books ...
... Animals ( 1977 ) and The Nature of the Beast ( 1982 ) with a particular concern about animals and the environment . His interest in the philosophy of religion and in theological concerns was clearly established in his subsequent books ...
الصفحة x
... animals . In his theo- logical account of creation all animals are our neighbours . Scientists should not , he believes , regard them as the proper subject of experiments , let alone biotechnological manipula- tions , and the rest of us ...
... animals . In his theo- logical account of creation all animals are our neighbours . Scientists should not , he believes , regard them as the proper subject of experiments , let alone biotechnological manipula- tions , and the rest of us ...
الصفحة xiii
... 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 Political ...
... 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 Political ...
الصفحة xiv
... Animals : the view from science fiction ' in Alan Holland and Andrew Johnson , eds . , Animal Biotechnology and ... Animals in Christian Religion ( SCM Press : London 1998 ) , pp . 123-36 ; ' Understanding Animals ' in Michael Tobias and ...
... Animals : the view from science fiction ' in Alan Holland and Andrew Johnson , eds . , Animal Biotechnology and ... Animals in Christian Religion ( SCM Press : London 1998 ) , pp . 123-36 ; ' Understanding Animals ' in Michael Tobias and ...
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The development of Darwinian theory | 9 |
Moral and metaphysical assumptions | 58 |
Trying to live in nature | 94 |
The biology of sin | 140 |
Human identities | 187 |
The goals of goodness | 241 |
The end of humanity | 258 |
The covenant with all living creatures | 283 |
Conclusion cosmos and beyond | 301 |
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