Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics.

Surgical Lectures and Essays

This is an interesting and useful little book. We have not discovered much that is very original in the articles it contains, and most of the chapters are reprinted clinical lectures, and are therefore specially intended for students, but they may also be read with profit by practitioners. As might be expected from Mr. Sheild as the author of a book on diseases of the breast, many chapters are ...

Clinical Essays and Lectures

Biotheology: Theology, Ethics and the New Biotechnologies

This paper brings bioethics into line with biotechnology (which means extending the traditionally narrow definition of bioethics) and proposes a new field of biotheology as a theology of life which belongs alongside the more traditional sub-disciplines of systematic theology such as theological anthropology (doctrine of humanity), Christology, pneumatology and ecclesiology. An intentional focus...

Notes on Moral Theology Marriage: Developments in Catholic Theology and Ethics

[Roman Catholic teaching on marriage focuses on interpersonal love of spouses, of which sacramentality and procreation are dimensions. Post Vatican II disputes about sexual morality, divorce, and birth control have taken place in this general context. A new generation of scholars—married, with children—argues for a more social view of marriage, with special concern about socioeconomic pressures...

Natural Theology and the Qur’an

Natural theology is reading the book of nature, not the book of revelation, for knowledge of God. Natural theology, as a category employed by practitioners, originated within the history of Christianity, as passages from the New Testament such as Romans 1:20 raised the possibility of knowledge about God without revelation. The best-known work of natural theology is William Paley’s (d. 1805 AD) ...