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Honoring the Bios in Lutheran Bioethics
Author(s) -
Meilaender Gilbert
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.0012-2033.2004.00199.x
Subject(s) - bioethics , bios , relation (database) , sociology , biopower , philosophy , environmental ethics , psychoanalysis , epistemology , law , psychology , political science , computer science , database , politics , operating system
A Lutheran bioethic honors the body by being anti‐Gnostic (and finding moral wisdom in the body's limits), by being anti‐Pelagian (and requiring the reshaping of our disordered desires), and by being anti‐Sadducean (in affirming that the new creation, though continuous with and fulfilling the old, also transforms and perfects it in ways that go beyond the earthly life we know). Such an approach to bioethics is illustrated here through discussion of the way in which new reproductive technologies may distort our understanding of the relation between the generations, thereby losing sight of the bios in bioethics.