Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification
Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification
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Abstract
We are approaching the day when advances in biotechnology will allow parents to “design” a baby with the traits they want. The continuing debate over the possibilities of genetic engineering has been spirited, but so far largely confined to the realms of bioethics and public policy. This book approaches the question in religious terms, discussing human germline modification (the genetic modification of the embryonic cells that become the eggs or sperm of a developing organism), from the viewpoints of traditional Christian and Jewish teaching. The contributors, religious scholars and writers, call our attention not to technology but to humanity, reflecting upon the meaning and destiny of human life in a technological age. Many of these scholars argue that religious teaching can support human germline modification implemented for therapeutic reasons, although they offer certain moral conditions which must be met. The contributions offer a variety of opinions, including a discussion of Judaism’s traditional presumption in favor of medicine, an argument that Catholic doctrine could accept germline modification if it is therapeutic for the embryo, an argument implying that “traditional” Christian teaching permits germline modification whether for therapy or enhancement, and a “classical” Protestant view that germline modification should be categorically opposed.
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Front Matter
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Religion and the Question of Human Germline Modification
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Judaism and Germline Modification
Elliot N. Dorff
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The Roman Catholic Magisterium and Genetic Research: An Overview and Evaluation
Thomas A. Shannon
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A Traditional Christian Reflection on Reengineering Human Nature
H. Tristram Engelhardt
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Germline Gene Modification and the Human Condition before God
Nigel M. de S. Cameron andAmy Michelle DeBaets
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Human Germline Therapy: Proper Human Responsibility or Playing God?
James J. Walter
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Germline Genetics, Human Nature, and Social Ethics
Lisa Sowle Cahill
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Freedom, Conscience, and Virtue: Theological Perspectives on the Ethics of Inherited Genetic Modification
Celia Deane-Drummond
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Religion, Genetics, and the Future
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