There’s No Harm in Talking: Re-Establishing the Relationship Between Theological and Secular Bioethics

Non-ideal Critical Realism Analysis on the Ethical Positions of Secular Doctors Towards Human Genome Editing

“…Bioethics as a product of human civilization was formed under the pressure of widespread social change and the collapse of traditional institutions (Engelhardt, 2012). Attempts to translate theological claims and moral arguments into non-theological terms aim to facilitate interaction and demonstrate the universality of these theological claims beyond one's own tradition (Eberl, 2020;McCarthy et al, 2020). Broadly speaking, the bioethical debate is a social movement in response to legal dynamics in the biopolitical landscape, it also appears as a social agenda to change public policy (Engelhardt, 2012).…”

“…(IE) Without a change in the religious anthropological conception of the working definition of human dignity, efforts to translate bioethics with religious morality into a secular context would be impossible (Żuradzki & Wiśniowska, 2020). Another crucial issue with McCarthy, Homan, and Rozier (2020) is the doctrine of forgiving sins and the paradox between autonomy and the common good (Colgrove, 2020;Geppert & Schonfeld, 2020). The idea of sin presupposes the existence of God and involves distorting one's relationship with the creator so it is incompatible with a nonreligious worldview (Li, 2020;Matisonn, 2020).…”

Why Using Religious Arguments in the Euthanasia Discussion is Problematic

“…Religion may form the heuristic context to discern values, but is not necessarily their sole epistemological source nor provides their sole justification. We need a détente between religion and reason, not an escalation of the battle (27).…”

End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition

“…There are some vigorous debates over the extent to which religion plays a role in modern healthcare. These debates includes concerns over clinicians providing religious and spiritual support (Sloan and Bagiella 2000), religious frameworks being used to inform bioethical rules and regulations (Murphy 2012;Schuklenk 2018;McCarthy, Homan and Rozier 2020), and religious values being used to support modifying or limiting conventional healthcare (Campbell 2018). Regardless of these important debates, religion and medicine both respond to the human condition.…”