Human
Cloning: Religious Responses
by Ronald Cole-Turner (Editor),
Ron Cole-Turner (Editor)
From The Publisher
As cloning begins to loom
ahead of us as a possibility for our future, Christians have begun to ask
themselves if human cloning equals playing God. Is the technology - despite
being scientifically exciting - a moral option in our world? Should we
clone a human just because we can? In this volume, Cole-Turner gathers
twelve highly readable and non technical essays debating what could become
the defining controversy of the late twentieth century.
Reviews
From Library Journal
A dozen Christian theologians
tackle the question of human cloning and offer diverse views of whether
cloning is "playing God" and whether it is something to be welcomed as
a scientific advance or feared as a manipulation of creation. While all
12 agree this question needs to be discussed before human cloning becomes
a reality, they offer a wide range of views. The contributors represent
various Christian denominations. Most are present or former seminary professors;
two are directors of church "think-tanks" (representing the Church of Scotland
and Roman Catholicism). Two of the 12 are women: one says no to cloning;
one sees it as a way to undercut male hegemony and solve the problem of
same-sex couples who want a child who possesses the genes of at least one
of them. Overall, the collection offers provocative views of an emerging
moral issue. Highly recommended. Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, N.J.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface - Ronald Cole-Turner
1 A View from Edinburgh - Donald M. Bruce
2 Cloning Shock: A Theological Reaction
- Ted Peters
3 Saying No to Human Cloning - Abigail Rian
Evans
4 Cloning and the Moral Imperative - Sir
John Polkinghorne
5 A View from the Underside - Peter J. Paris
6 Genes, Justice, and Clones - Karen Lebacqz
7 Cloning the Human Body Stanley Hauerwas
- Joel Shuman
8 An Absence of Love - David M. Byers
9 One Flesh? Cloning, Procreation, and the
Family - Brent Waters
10 The Brave New World of Cloning: A Christian
Worldview Perspective -
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
11 Between Eden and Babel - Roger L. Shinn
12 At the Beginning - Ronald Cole-Turner
Appendix I: Recommendations of the National
Bioethics Advisory Commission
Appendix II: Denominational Statements on
Cloning
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