Research Catalog

Title

After God : morality and bioethics in a secular age / by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Author

Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-

Publication

• Yonkers, New York : St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

487 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Engelhardt invites readers to understand what it means to live in a world after God, where questions of sin and virtue have been replaced with life-and-death-style choices. After God provides a dark prophetic vision. But there is still hope. As Engelhardt argues, In this culture, children now grow up apart from and defended against a recognition of the God Who lives. They are nurtured in a social fabric that is structured so as to avoid a recognition of, much less an encounter with, God. Nevertheless ... a traditional Christianity has endured, even though its morality and bioethics have become ever more strongly counter-cultural. The source of this traditional Christian otherness over against the surrounding post-theistic culture lies in the origins of Christianity itself, in the Christianity of the Apostles and the Fathers, namely, in Orthodox Christianity. Against the tenor of the times, disregarding the animus to set traditional Christianity aside, and despite heretics prominent within its fold, Orthodox Christianity remains a light in a world after God. --! From back cover.

Alternative Title

Morality and bioethics in a secular age

Subjects

• History
• Philosophy and religion
• Secularism
• Bioethical Issues
• History, 20th Century
• Religion and Sex
• Applied ethics
• Bioethik
• Angewandte Ethik
• Säkularismus
• Christianity > psychology
• Ethics, Clinical
• Bioethics > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-470) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Living in the ruins of Christendom -- The demoralization and deflation of morality and bioethics -- More on secularization, thoughts on sex, and the authority of the state -- Fides et ratio, the western medieval synthesis, and the collapse of secular morality and bioethics -- Bioethical conflicts : obligations to God versus obligations to the secular state -- Clinical ethics radically reconsidered : bioethics, common morality, and the law -- Common ground as battleground : seeking an anchor in God -- Living without God.

ISBN

• 9780881414998
• 0881414999

LCCN

2014019778

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library