The Meaning of Death and the Goal of Medicine: An Augustinian and Barthian Reassessment
This article explores medicine's goals as they relate to the meaning of death and finitude through the lens of Jeffrey Bishop and Daniel Callahan. It concludes that arguments posed by these authors regarding death and medicine cohere with many rich Christian theological claims about the nature...
| Published in: | Christian bioethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Christian bioethics
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| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This article explores medicine's goals as they relate to the meaning of death and finitude through the lens of Jeffrey Bishop and Daniel Callahan. It concludes that arguments posed by these authors regarding death and medicine cohere with many rich Christian theological claims about the nature of life and death. Turning to St. Augustine and Karl Barth, one sees that the meaning of death and finitude ties to our theological anthropology as vulnerable creatures in relation to God. Understanding a transcendent meaning to death and life informs the limits to medicine's institutional goals and practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbw021 |