Talking at Cross Purposes: Why We Shouldn’t Re-Establish the Relationship Between Theological and Secular Bioethics

Non-ideal Critical Realism Analysis on the Ethical Positions of Secular Doctors Towards Human Genome Editing

“…Another crucial issue with McCarthy, Homan, and Rozier (2020) is the doctrine of forgiving sins and the paradox between autonomy and the common good (Colgrove, 2020;Geppert & Schonfeld, 2020). The idea of sin presupposes the existence of God and involves distorting one's relationship with the creator so it is incompatible with a nonreligious worldview (Li, 2020;Matisonn, 2020). For theological morality to be relevant, Tillich (1947) suggests that theology must be correlated with responding to questions raised by contemporary culture (Carlin, 2020).…”

The Social Context of Religion in the Jurisdictions of Bioethics

“…Of course, when talking to their own religious community, they should not translate, but in intercultural communication detail must be sacrificed. Of course, a true dialog will be two way, as commentators point out (Kalbian et al 2020;Matisonn 2020;Murphy 2020). If a goal truly represents the public it will not in our pluralistic society be a direct translation of a religious or secular value but some sort of built compromise.…”