H. Tristam Engelhardt Jr., The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (2000).
Front flap: For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.
Showing posts with label Law School (Family Law). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law School (Family Law). Show all posts
The Strong Family: Growing Wise in Family Life
Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family: Growing Wise in Family Life (1991).
What makes a family strong? Check your list: clean-cut kids, church every Sunday, fish on the bumper, Bible reading in the home. So what’s missing?
Authenticity.
Chuck Swindoll urges us to apply biblical principles in authenticity—between husband and wife, parents and children, and brothers and sisters. In doing so, we won’t get a perfect family . . . just a strong one.
What makes a family strong? Check your list: clean-cut kids, church every Sunday, fish on the bumper, Bible reading in the home. So what’s missing?
Authenticity.
Chuck Swindoll urges us to apply biblical principles in authenticity—between husband and wife, parents and children, and brothers and sisters. In doing so, we won’t get a perfect family . . . just a strong one.
Of Marriage and Monks, Community and Dialogue
Patrick McKinley Brennan, Of Marriage and Monks, Community and Dialogue, 48 Emory L. J. 689 (1999). (Reviewing John Witte Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (Westminster John Knox Press 1997)). (Invited).
A Reply to Drs. Carlson and Hitchcock: Still a Fool’s Game—The Mistaken Pursuit of Family Virtue through Politics and Law
Douglas W. Kmiec, A Reply to Drs. Carlson and Hitchcock: Still a Fool’s Game—The Mistaken Pursuit of Family Virtue through Politics and Law, 10 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol. 647 (1996) (book review).
Homosexuality and American Public Life
Christopher Wolfe, ed. Homosexuality and American Public Life (Spence Publishing 2000).
From the publisher: “Philosophers and lawyers make the definitive case that homosexuality is both a moral and psychological disorder and a matter for compassionate but urgent public concern.” Introduction by William Kristol and afterward by Richard John Neuhaus. Contributors include Robert P. George, Hadley Arkes, Gerard Bradley, Michael Pakaluk, and David Coolidge.
From the publisher: “Philosophers and lawyers make the definitive case that homosexuality is both a moral and psychological disorder and a matter for compassionate but urgent public concern.” Introduction by William Kristol and afterward by Richard John Neuhaus. Contributors include Robert P. George, Hadley Arkes, Gerard Bradley, Michael Pakaluk, and David Coolidge.
Love Must Be Tough
James Dobson, Love Must Be Tough (Updated 1996).
Dr. Dobson provides advice to an innocent spouse on methods for responding biblically to a partner's infidelity, cruelty, or abuse in marriage.
Dr. Dobson provides advice to an innocent spouse on methods for responding biblically to a partner's infidelity, cruelty, or abuse in marriage.
The Family, Civil Society, and the State
Christophe Wolfe, ed. The Family, Civil Society, and the State (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
A detailed look at the Family and modern social institutions, this book includes essays from a who’s who of lawyers and cultural critics. It is divided into four parts:
The first part of the book explores what is distinctive in the current situation of the family, and offers both optimistic and pessimistic assessments of the family in our time, as well as a historical overview. In the second part, authors look at the family today; demographics, economics, and social pathologies are all discussed. Part three offers analysis of the family and American law, especially the law of divorce, and the fourth part deals with the relationship between the family and two profoundly important facets of the structural framework of American life: our capitalist economic system and the cultural power of the media. Finally, the fifth part surveys the various areas of public policy, and concludes by asking whether, and what, public policy can do for the family. (From the publisher).
A detailed look at the Family and modern social institutions, this book includes essays from a who’s who of lawyers and cultural critics. It is divided into four parts:
The first part of the book explores what is distinctive in the current situation of the family, and offers both optimistic and pessimistic assessments of the family in our time, as well as a historical overview. In the second part, authors look at the family today; demographics, economics, and social pathologies are all discussed. Part three offers analysis of the family and American law, especially the law of divorce, and the fourth part deals with the relationship between the family and two profoundly important facets of the structural framework of American life: our capitalist economic system and the cultural power of the media. Finally, the fifth part surveys the various areas of public policy, and concludes by asking whether, and what, public policy can do for the family. (From the publisher).
From Sacrament to Contract
John Witte, Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (1997).
“At one level, From Sacrament to Contract is a report of five richly developed conceptual constructs: marriage as sacrament in the Catholic tradition, as social estate in the Lutheran reformation, as covenant in the Calvinist tradition, as commonwealth in the Anglican tradition, and as contract in the inheritance of the Enlightenment. . . . But Witte has done more than equip his readers to continue ‘the endless Western dialogue’ on marriage, in the sense of being able to understand something of what has been said and politely to say it again. . . . . Professor Witte's wonderful book responds to what he argues is a crisis--the disintegration and marginalization of the West's store of wisdom about marriage and family, indeed the virtual cessation, except at the margins, of a genuine dialogue about marriage's and family's goods and goals and the means of their realization.”
“At one level, From Sacrament to Contract is a report of five richly developed conceptual constructs: marriage as sacrament in the Catholic tradition, as social estate in the Lutheran reformation, as covenant in the Calvinist tradition, as commonwealth in the Anglican tradition, and as contract in the inheritance of the Enlightenment. . . . But Witte has done more than equip his readers to continue ‘the endless Western dialogue’ on marriage, in the sense of being able to understand something of what has been said and politely to say it again. . . . . Professor Witte's wonderful book responds to what he argues is a crisis--the disintegration and marginalization of the West's store of wisdom about marriage and family, indeed the virtual cessation, except at the margins, of a genuine dialogue about marriage's and family's goods and goals and the means of their realization.”
Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate
Lynn D. Wardle, Mark Strasser, et al., eds., Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate (2003).
The book covers all the bases of the debate in a true “debate” format: one scholar takes one side of the issue, another takes the other, then each responds to the other’s article. The participants are all recognized scholars and/or experts in the arena.
The book covers all the bases of the debate in a true “debate” format: one scholar takes one side of the issue, another takes the other, then each responds to the other’s article. The participants are all recognized scholars and/or experts in the arena.
Marriage and the Liberal Imagination
Robert P. George and Gerard Bradley, Marriage and the Liberal Imagination, 84 Geo. L. J. 301 (1995).
This article addresses marriage, homosexuality, and public policy.
This article addresses marriage, homosexuality, and public policy.
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