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If we wish to understand ourselves and the world in relation to God, what contribution to our understanding should we expect from a Christian tradition with its roots in the Bible, and what should we expect from the natural sciences?Neil Messer sets out five types of answer to that question. The responses range from the view that the Christian tradition has nothing to contribute, through various forms of dialogue, to the claim that science is ...

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Is the war in Iraq just? What is the right response to homosexuality? In order to weigh up these questions, this guide relates contemporary questions about sexual ethics to the tradition of Natural Law. It presents a range of approaches to biblical, doctrinal and ethical issues and aspects of worship.

Bioethical issues are rarely out of view in Western societies. New developments in areas such as human embryology continually raise new ethical questions, while more familiar issues frequently reappear in public debate. These are issues of central concern for Christians and for a wider public, because they raise questions about the value of life, the meaning of suffering and death and humanity's place in the natural world. Neil Messer is Re...

Covers the major areas of ethical theory and methodology.

This book gives a theologically satisfying discussion of health and disease that addresses key areas neglected by medical ethicists. We use such words as "health, " "disease, " and "illness" all the time without stopping to consider exactly what we understand by them. Yet their meanings are far from straightforward, and disagreements over them have important practical consequences in health care and bioethics. In this book, Neil Messer develop...

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Serves as a useful resource for Christian education and spiritual formation for use by housegroups, Bible study groups. This work presents a range of approaches to biblical, doctrinal and ethical issues and aspects of worship, and includes many helps for stimulating reflection and discussion.

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The evolutionary origins of human beings, and in particular the origins of human morality, have long attracted debate and speculation, not only in the academic community but also in popular scientific literature and in society at large. Evolutionary accounts of human behaviour and morality have great imaginative power, with the attendant risk that they sometimes stray beyond the bounds of scientific theory to become powerful popular myths. I...