Top Ten Books of 2009, Number Seven

— Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 —

Gilbert Meilaender, Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person

I am stunned by how often I hear evangelical Christians (including some very conservative ones) who have no idea how to think about bioethical issues beyond the question of abortion. There seems to be a “no abortion/no problem” attitude among some evangelicals when it comes to questions of reproductive technology and so forth. The problem is a previous generation of evangelicals often held a “no infanticide/no problem” attitude. A generation past (with some very notable and commendable exceptions) couldn’t see what was happening, so they lagged behind as the horror of the abortion culture settled in.

Gilbert Meilaender provided this year a superb resource for thoughtful people to consider questions of human dignity, and how to maintain it. He starts and ends with the most important question: “What is man?”

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3 Responses to “Top Ten Books of 2009, Number Seven”

  1. Jacob Allee December 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    I really enjoyed reading Scott Rae’s book Moral Choices. It has a great section on Bio-ethical decision making. It covered anywehre from abortion to end life decisions, etc. That’s a great book to introduce Christians to the subject of ethics in general I think.

  2. Matthew Stokes December 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Many thanks for this edification to your evangelical brothers. We desperately need it.

  3. Brother Hank December 28th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    Dr. Moore,

    Have you read/heard of Eric Cohen’s “In the Shadow of Progress”? I’m thinking about grabbing a copy of it to read along with this Meilaender book.

    ‘BH