Demnitatea embrionului uman. Perspective liturgice
The demnity of human embrio. From a liturgical point of view

Summary/Abstract: The right to live seems to be a right that has been won from centuries for humanity. The human embryo came into contemporary interdisciplinary debate, involving medicine, bioethics, philosophy, ethics, and Christian theology. The current development of scientific research, particularly thebiotech industry has put on the current debate the right to live before birth. Inthe Christian life, even from the beginning of the book Genesis the human lifewas created and protected by God’s divine ‘hands’, and after the initialcreation of the human person, men and women are obeyed to fulfil the divineplan to promote and to transmit the life on earth. The Holy Scripture does notaddress directly to the embryos, and that does not mean that they were notimportant because the early church considers the human life sacred andinviolable from the moment of conception. The purpose of this study is toexplore the liturgical life of the Church and in the Christian calendar, weobserve several Christian celebrations related to holly persons before theirbirth. We consider that, to be the starting point for developing the liturgicalarguments for honouring and respecting human embryo. Furthermore, we arelooking into the embryonic iconography of incarnation and the theology ofincarnation from the bioethical perspective.

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