In God's Garden Creation and Cloning in Jewish Thought | Zendy

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In God's Garden Creation and Cloning in Jewish Thought

Author(s) -

COHEN JONATHAN R.

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

hastings center report

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515

H-Index - 63

eISSN - 1552-146X

pISSN - 0093-0334

DOI - 10.2307/3528060

Subject(s) - transformative learning , human cloning , power (physics) , cloning (programming) , judaism , aesthetics , environmental ethics , sociology , philosophy , theology , law , political science , computer science , pedagogy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language

The possibility of cloning human beings challenges Western beliefs about creation and our relationship to God. If we understand God as the Creator and creation as a completed act, cloning will be a transgression. If, however, we understand God as the Power of Creation and creation as a transformative process, we may find a role for human participation, sharing that power as beings created in the image of God.

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