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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mitchell, Basil

Titel

The Role of Theology in Bioethics

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• Theology and Bioethics, p.65-78

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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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• To claim at all that there is a role for theology in bioethics is to face a dilemma. Either the principles which apply in the practice of medicine, or in biological research, are such as to approve themselves to all reasonable men, in which case there is no need to ‘bring theology into it’; or religion provides one perspective among others from which the moral issues may be viewed, and it is not clear why in a‘plural society’ this one should be preferred to the others. Theology is either otiose or intrusive.