Christian doctrines, ethical issues, and human genetics

Theological Studies

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 719-749

  Mahoney, Jack ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/004056390306400403     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. John Paul II, Evangelium vitae (1995) no. 54.
2. Acta apostolicae sedis 74 (1982) 872-83, at 876.
3. Paul Ramsey distinguishes between seeing the image of God as an inherent element of human nature (the "substantialist" concept) and viewing it as a relationship (the "relational" concept) between humanity and God. See his Basic Christian Ethics (New York: Scribner, 1950) 250.
4. See Douglas John Hall, Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986) 71.
5. For a useful survey of modern bioethical literature on the image of God, see James J. Walter, "Theological Issues in Genetics," Theological Studies 60 (1999) 124-29.
6. See John Mahoney, The Making of Moral Theology. A Study of the Roman Catholic Tradition (New York: Oxford University, 1987) 345-46.
7. Audrey R. Chapman, Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics at the Frontiers. of Genetic Science (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999) 170. Chapman has provided a useful survey and analysis of approaches to genetic issues on the part of major Christian bodies and individual theologians.
8. Pius XII, Humani generis (1950) no. 575;
9. Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion symbolorum, ed. 33 (1965) no. 3896.
10. Rahner, "Evolution," in his Encyclopedia of Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1989) 481.
11. John Macquarrie, Principles of Christian Theology (New York: Charles Scribner, 1977) 225-26.
12. See Jack Mahoney, "Christian Approaches to Modern Business Ethics," The Month 27, no. 2 (February 1994) 57-62.
13. Gaudium et spes no. 16. The Vatican II translations are taken from Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ed. Norman P. Tanner, S.J., vol. 2 (Washington: Georgetown University, 1990).
14. See Mahoney, The Making of Moral Theology, chap 2, "The Legacy of Augustine,"
15. Rahner, "On Bad Arguments in Moral Theology," Theological Investigations 18 (New York: Crossroad, 1983) 74-85.
16. See Mahoney, The Making of Moral Theology 206-10, 287-88.
17. See the poem of Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto," in Robert Browning, ed. Adam Roberts (New York: Oxford University, 1997) 240-46.
18. Jan Christian Heller, "Religiously Based Objections to Human Cloning: Are They Sustainable?" in Human Cloning, ed. James M. Hunter and Robert F. Almeder (Towota, N.J.: Humana, 1998) 174
19. quoted in Chapman, Unprecedented Choices 123.
20. See Mahoney, "Moral Reasoning in Medical Ethics," The Month 18, no. 9 (September 1985) 293-99.
21. Richard A. McCormick, How Brave a New World? Dilemmas in Bioethics (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981) 306.
22. Richard A. McCormick, The Critical Calling: Reflections on Moral Dilemmas Since Vatican II (Washington: Georgetown University, 1989) 265.
23. Hitman Cloning and Human Dignity, Report of the [U.S.] President's Council on Bioethics, chaired by Leon R Kass (New York: Public Affairs, 2002) 42, 43.
24. Pius XII, Address to the First International Symposium on Genetic Medicine, Rome, September 7, 1953, Acta apostolicae sedis 45 (1953) 596-607, at 605.
25. Thomas A. Shannon, "Ethical Issues in Genetics," Theological Studies 60 (1999) 111-34, at 131.
26. Rahner, "The Experiment with Man," in Theological Investigations 9 (New York: Herder & Herder, 1972) 211.
27. Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (New Haven: Yale University, 1970) 146.
28. Rahner, "Experiment with Man" 210.
29. McCormick, How Brave a New World 295, n. 26.
30. Rahner, "The Problem of Genetic Manipulation" 236-37, 245-46.
31. Ramsey, Fabricated Man 142 (emphasis in original).
32. Bernard Häring, Ethics of Manipulation: Issues in Medicine, Behavior, and Genetics (New York: Seabury, 1975) 187-88.
33. Rahner, "The Problem of Genetic Manipulation" 226, n. 2.
34. Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Donum vitae (1987) 5.1.
35. John Paul II, Evangelium vitae (1995) nos. 57, 60.
36. Pope John Paul II, Address to Convention on Experiments in Biology, October 23, 1982, Acta apostolicae sedis 75 (1983) 37.
37. McCormick, The Critical Calling 343-50.
38. James F. Keenan, "Genetic Research and the Elusive Body," in Embodiment, Morality and Medicine, ed. Lisa Sowie Cahill and Margaret A. Farley (Boston: Kluwer, 1995) 61-62.
39. For a forceful expression of the official Catholic position, see William E. May, "Pope John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and Bioethics," in Pope John Paul II and Bioethics, ed. Christopher Olafsen (Boston: Kluwer, forthcoming). May's text is accessible on his website http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/may/may.html
40. Shannon, "Ethical Issues" 121.
41. Human Cloning and Human Dignity 150-82.
42. Jonathan Glover, What Sort of People Should There Be? Genetic Engineering, Brain Control and Their Impact on Our Future World (London: Penguin, 1984) 36.
43. John Harris, Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution (New York: Oxford University, 1998) 27.
44. Pius XII, Address to the First International Symposium on Genetic Medicine, Acta apostolicae sedis 45 (1953) 604-5.
45. Keenan, "Genetic Research and the Elusive Body" esp. 59, 62-63, 68-69.
46. John Paul II, Address to the Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, February 24, 1998, sections 2 and 4.
47. Glover, What Sort of People 56.
48. John Harris, "Cloning and Balanced Ethics," in Bioethics for the New Millennium, ed. Iain Torrance (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew, 2000) 46.
49. Shannon, "Ethical Issues in Genetics" 121.
50. Human Cloning and Hitman Dignity 99-110.
51. See John Mahoney, "The Ethics of Sex Selection," in Mediane, Medical Ethics and the Value of Life, ed. Peter Byrne (New York: Wiley, 1990) 141-57.
52. Scott B. Rae and Paul M. Cox, Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) 119.
53. Genetic Intervention on Human Subjects, The Report of a Working Party of the Catholic [British] Bishops' Joint Committee on Bioethical Issues (London: The Linacre Centre, 1996) 36-40.
54. Häring, Ethics of Manipulation 183.
55. John Paul II, Address to the World Medical Association, October 29, 1983, Acta apostolicae sedis 76 (1984) 392-94.
56. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1941-45) 200.
57. See Jack Mahoney, "The Sin of Pride," in Tradition and Unity: Sermons Published in Honour of Robert Runcie, ed. Dan Cohn Sherbok (London: Bellew, 1991) 282-89.
58. See www.genochoice.com; www.dnanow.com.
59. David Galton, In Our Own Image: Eugenics and the Genetic Modification of People (London: Little, Brown, 2001) 133.
60. Genetic Intervention on Human Subjects 40 (emphasis in original).
61. See Richard Dworkin, "Rights as Trumps," in Theories of Rights, ed. Jeremy Waldron (New York: Oxford University, 1984) 153-67.
62. Garth L. Hallett, Christian Moral Reasoning: An Analytical Guide (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1983).
63. Chapman, Unprecedented Choices 61, 119-20.
64. Rae and Cox, Bioethics 12.
65. Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).
66. See Alistair Kee, A Reader in Political Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974).
67. Lisa Sowie Cahill, "The New Biotech World Order," The Hastings Center Report 29 (March-April 1999) 45-46.
68. Galton, In Our Own Image xviii.
69. Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man 29-30 (emphasis in original).
70. Tom L Beauchamp and James E. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 5th ed. (New York: Oxford University, 2001).