Summary: Religious Approaches To Bioethics
Chapter 1 reflection
Religious Approaches to Bioethics
Rae, Scott B. & Paul M. Cox. Biethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.
In this chapter, Rae and Cox go straight to point they want to discuss in the whole book which is the “Religious Approaches to Bioethics.” In this chapter, they evaluate and examine how three western religious, Roman Catholics, Protestant, and Jewish viewpoints stand on the issues of bioethics in medicine. The Roman Catholic claim is based on natural law in a sense that “there are objective moral truths that can be known by all human beings.” The protestant takes a different route, and its perspectives are filled with Luther’s idea “the freedom
Religious Approaches to Bioethics
Rae, Scott B. & Paul M. Cox. Biethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.
In this chapter, Rae and Cox go straight to point they want to discuss in the whole book which is the “Religious Approaches to Bioethics.” In this chapter, they evaluate and examine how three western religious, Roman Catholics, Protestant, and Jewish viewpoints stand on the issues of bioethics in medicine. The Roman Catholic claim is based on natural law in a sense that “there are objective moral truths that can be known by all human beings.” The protestant takes a different route, and its perspectives are filled with Luther’s idea “the freedom