Good is to be Pursued and Evil Avoided: How a Natural Law Approach to Christian Bioethics can Miss Both

This essay casts doubt on the benefit Christian bioethics can derive from some recent natural law theorizing, both in its traditional and its "new" versions. It does so on two levels. First, it targets the underlying ambition to secure a basis (whether in a sufficiently general moral conse...

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Main Author: Hayes, Cornelia 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-212
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
NAB Fundamental theology
NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
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