By John B. Cobb Jr.
ISBN-10: 0585329737
ISBN-13: 9780585329734
ISBN-10: 0664251692
ISBN-13: 9780664251697
Using a bioethical strategy, John Cobb Jr. tackles probably the most arguable matters dealing with society and the church today--something theologians have usually didn't do some time past. His 4 significant subject matters are animal healthiness, dying with dignity, the ethical prestige of the fetus, and sexual intercourse outdoor of marriage.
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For hundreds of thousands of years, as hunters and gatherers, human beings functioned as one species among others. They thus contributed to the richness of the whole. " But at some point, perhaps ten thousand years ago, human beings began to overstep the boundaries, to cease to function as merely one species among others. They began to domesticate other species. In the process they also "civilized" or domesticated themselves. They became alienated both from the inclusive creation and from their own natural being.
Nothing is said at this point about the eating of animals either by human beings or by other animals. It is also striking that the commandment to be fruitful and multiply is given first to the creatures of the sea and the air. There is no suggestion that giving the same command to human beings abrogates the earlier command to these other creatures, or that granting dominion to human beings authorizes them to prevent other living things from fulfilling this commandment. It is not possible here to survey the whole biblical literature on this question.
Taking the right to life of every member of the species Homo sapiens as an absolute sets up the debate in an unhealthy way. This absolutistic thinking is widespread. Among Christians it is often thought to be required by the Bible. Certainly biblical commandments against murder are typically stated without qualifications. For example, and most influentially, in the Ten Commandments the prohibition is stated quite simply, ''You shall not kill" (Ex. 20:13). Few dispute that in context this means that people are not to kill other people.
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