Christian Bioethics. Some aspects regarding the
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Bioetica creștină. Câteva aspecte privitoare la reconfigurarea spirituală a umanului
Christian Bioethics. Some aspects regarding the spiritual reconfiguration of the human

Author(s): Liviu Stanciu
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: human being, bios, christian Bioethics;life manipulation;moral perfection; God’s gift.

Summary/Abstract: This research is centered on Bioethics as an orthodox modus vivendi, not as it is considered out of Christianity – a simple discipline very recently invented and a new science of principles in life manipulation. Human being is the most „unsoundable” existence created by God Himself, by His very hands. This creation – human being – has to be understood in its integrity as a gift from the Creator; man is as a microcosmos and a microtheos. The important role of the Orthodox Bioethics is to reveal this two attributes of the human being and to unite the simple principles of secular Bioethics with the term of theosis – used by the Fathers of the Church –, which is the final goal of the moral perfection. The study tries to show the superiority of the orthodox Bioethics comparing to the others, marking the fact that the spirituality in the Orthodox Church is centered on the transfiguration (not on the manipulation) of life and entire creation to the single purpose given to us by God, in creation: the personal redemption.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 129-146
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian