Sexuality and Christian Tradition

The Christian Hippocratic Tradition in Medicine

To some people it may seem anachronistic that the aim of Ethics & Medicine is to ?reassert the Hippocratic consensus in medicine as seen through the lens of the Judeo-Christian tradition.? What is Hippocratic medicine? As Hippocrates once stated, ?The medical art has to consider three factors, the disease, the patient, and the physician. The physician is the servant of his art, and the patient ...

The human embryo in the Christian tradition: a reconsideration.

Recent claims that the Christian tradition justifies destructive research on human embryos have drawn upon an article by the late Professor Gordon Dunstan which appeared in this journal in 1984. Despite its undoubted influence, this article was flawed and seriously misrepresented the tradition of Christian reflection on the moral status of the human embryo.

Emancipating Sexuality: Breakthroughs into a Bulwark of Tradition

This article presents evidence for a rising emancipatory spirit, across generations and around the world, in a life domain in which religion hitherto blocked emancipatory gains: sexual freedoms. We propose an explanation of rising emancipative values that integrates several approaches into a single idea-the utility ladder of freedoms. Specifically, we suggest that objectively improving living c...

Does God make it real? Children's belief in religious stories from the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Four- to 6-year-old children (N = 131) heard religious or nonreligious stories and were questioned about their belief in the reality of the story characters and events. Children had low to moderate levels of belief in the characters and events. Children in the religious story condition had higher levels of belief in the reality of the characters and events than did children in the nonreligious ...

Uncovering difference: encoded homoerotic anxiety within the Christian eremitic tradition in medieval England.