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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.