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On the Christian in Christian Bioethics
Christian Bioethics, 2005What is Christian about Christian bioethics? And is an authentically Christian bioethics a practical possibility in the world in which we find ourselves? In my essay I argue that personhood and the personal are so fundamental to the Christian understanding of our humanity that body, soul, and spirit are probably best understood as the components of a ...
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Christianity, Christianities, Christian
Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 2015AbstractThe relation between the concept of religion and its Christian determinations has surely become increasingly visible. In the study of religion, Christianity (vera religio, western Christendom) has served as a paradigmatic occasion, a prime focus, of constant research and investigation.
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Christian Corpses for Christians!
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2011In this article, the author analyzes the campaign that captured the attention of medical colleges at Polish Universities in Warsaw, Vilno, Cracow, and Lvov during the 1920s and 1930s. The author discusses calls made by right-wing students for a regular supply of Jewish corpses matching their percentage among the students, and the ways in which ...
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Journal of Human Rights, 2005
Much has been said recently about the persecution and/or violence against Christians by non-Christian states and societies.
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Much has been said recently about the persecution and/or violence against Christians by non-Christian states and societies.
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Harvard Theological Review, 1949
The origins of the name Xριστιανοί are narrated in the Acts of the Apostles as follows. After Stephen's martyrdom, some believers from Cyprus and Cyrene, who had left Jerusalem, preached at Antioch. Their success became known at Jerusalem, and “the community which was in Jerusalem” sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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The origins of the name Xριστιανοί are narrated in the Acts of the Apostles as follows. After Stephen's martyrdom, some believers from Cyprus and Cyrene, who had left Jerusalem, preached at Antioch. Their success became known at Jerusalem, and “the community which was in Jerusalem” sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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Respect Christians as Christians
Dialogue and Universalism, 2000Dabru Emet is the first collective Jewish statement on Christianity of this character. It is a historic achievement. It appeals to Jews to respect Christians as Christians, rather than despite their being Christian. Controversies exist around the thesis that “Nazism was not a Christian phenomenon”, which to critics is too much of an absolution of the ...
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A Christian for the Christians, a Christian for the Muslims! An Attempt at an Argumentum ad Hominem
Christian Bioethics, 1998Schmidt and Egler’s critique of Christianity’s exclusivist claim to truth rests on two suppositions: (a) that inter-religious pastoral care for dying patients requires a respect for their cultural backgrounds which necessitates accepting the equal validity of their respective (non-Christian) religions, and (b) that exclusivism is incompatible with the ...
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The Christian and the Post‐Christian
Blackfriars, 1949A Cultured priest of my acquaintance has remarked to me more than onee that the penny Catechism, with all its virtues, is out of date. Many of its precise definitions and carefully chosen texts are aimed at a Bible Protestantism which hardly anyone believes in. On the other hand, difficulties which the modem convert is apt to raise are not met, and the
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Christian Nursing in a Non-Christian Country
Journal of Christian Nursing, 2010Reflecting on Christian nursing in a non-Christian country, a Chinese nurse shares about encouraging a mother of a sick child using the Bible. Christianity offers distinct contributions in nursing that non-Christian religions in China do not offer: an internalized and externalized God, opportunity for prayer, and Bible verses for any patient need ...
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What is Christian About Christian Bioethics?
Christian Bioethics, 2005What is Christian about Christian bioethics? The short answer to this question is that the Incarnation should shape the form and content of Christian bioethics. In explicating this answer it is argued that contemporary medicine is unwittingly embracing and implementing the transhumanist dream of transforming humans into posthumans.
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