走向基督教生物伦理学。

Towards a Christian bioethics.

作者信息

Engelhardt H Tristram

出版信息

Christ Bioeth. 1995 Mar;1(1):1-10. doi: 10.1093/cb/1.1.1.

DOI:10.1093/cb/1.1.1

Abstract

Rather than revealing itself as a single, unified, ecumenical faith, Christianity is sundered with Christians united neither in one communion nor in one baptism. Christian Bioethics seeks to examine the traditional content-full moral commitments which the Christian faiths bring to life, sexuality, suffering, illness and death within the contexts of medicine and health care. Seeking to understand the differences which separate the bioethics of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and the Orthodox, Christian Bioethics explores the manners in which the faiths diverge. The failure of the Enlightenment project to disclose a content-full communality that would bind mankind has left much to be reconsidered by Christians who face new ethical dilemmas in the novel guise of advances in health care technologies.

摘要

基督教并非展现为一种单一、统一、普世的信仰，而是四分五裂，基督徒既未在一个圣餐礼中联合，也未在一次洗礼中联合。基督教生物伦理学试图审视基督教各教派在医学和医疗保健背景下赋予生命、性、苦难、疾病和死亡的传统的、内涵丰富的道德承诺。为了理解区分罗马天主教、新教和东正教的生物伦理学的差异，基督教生物伦理学探究了这些教派产生分歧的方式。启蒙运动未能揭示出一种能将人类凝聚在一起的内涵丰富的共同体，这使得面临医疗保健技术进步这一新的伦理困境的基督徒有许多需要重新思考的地方。