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Book Review: Bioethics and the Christian Life by David Vandrunen

Bioethics and the Christian Life

Pages: 254
Pub­lisher: Cross­way
Year: 2009
Author: David Vandrunen

This past semes­ter I had the oppor­tu­nity to take a course on a sub­ject I’ve been inter­ested in for a long time–bioethics. It was a very inter­est­ing course for what it offered, but suf­fered from the same prob­lem which plagues most con­tem­po­rary courses on ethics, and that is that an act is only viewed in a cer­tain moral light rel­a­tive to the per­spec­tive of the observer, rather than in and of itself. Bioethics and the Chris­t­ian Life does not fol­low this trend, and pro­vides a good intro­duc­tion to the con­sid­er­a­tions of bioethics.

The pur­pose of this book is to “[explore] how ordi­nary Chris­tians, in the midst of the lives that they are called to live in Christ, may come to a bet­ter under­stand­ing of how to respond to the bioeth­i­cal ques­tions that con­front them, their fam­i­lies, and their fel­low believ­ers in … (Read more)