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Bioethics: A Primer for Christians
by Gilbert Meilaender

In the face of rapid medical advances in our world, bioethics is a serious concern for many in our society -- Christians and non-Christians alike. In this book Gilbert Meilaender contends that it is imperative for Christians to think consciously about bioethical issues as Christians if they are not to risk losing their Christian identity.

Working within a Christian vision of humans as free but finite creatures who are in relationship with God and with one another, Meilaender examines a wide range of bioethical issues -- assisted reproduction, abortion, gene therapy and genetic research, prenatal screening, suicide and euthanasia, treatment refusal and decision making, organ donation, and participation in research projects. Meilaender explores the difficulties surrounding each issue and offers a clear statement of how Christians ought to think about each one. Throughout he stresses the importance of care for the weakest members of our community and the hope that we have, despite our inability to eliminate all suffering, because we have a God who suffers with us. Read by Ken Myers.

Edge of Life, Edge of Death

Richard Doerflinger recounts the deliberations of the Human Embryo Research Panel, appointed by the National Institutes of Health. On side two, Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things magazine, talks about the legitimization of suicide and euthanasia in a society bankrupt of moral and political coherence.

The Supreme Court and Abortion

Russell Hittinger, associate professor of theology at Catholic University, talks about the evolution of the Supreme Court’s reasoning about abortion, privacy, and liberty, culminating in the extraordinary views of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Human Life, Human Dignity

Leon R. Kass outlines what is at stake in (and sets forth a framework for) indispensable discussions surrounding biotechnologies. Kass stresses that we must approach the discussion with reverence and awe and that a major component of the discussion should be the notion of human dignity. Kass recommends that we turn first not to the findings of science and technology, but to the canon of “residual wisdom” in the East and West—found in literary, philosophical, and religious traditions—that vividly depicts human nature in its glories and tragedies.

The Ethics of Human Cloning

Essays by Leon Kass, Gilbert Meilaender, and Abigail Rian Evans examine the myriad ways in which human cloning would alter traditional understandings of human nature, procreation, and the family. Read by Ken Myers.

MHA Journal Vol. 22 (July/Aug. 1996)

• Andrew Delbanco, on how American culture has effaced the idea of evil
• Michael Uhlmann, on two appellate court cases concerning the matter of doctor-assisted suicide
• Carlos Gomez, on why some American doctors have embraced the idea of killing their patients
• Michael Sandel, on the dangers of seeing democracy merely as morally neutral "procedures" to adjudicate differences
• Hadley Arkes, on how arguments for legalizing same-gender marriages go further than their advocates would like
• Robert George, on why marriage is an intrinsic good

MHA Journal Vol. 51 (July/Aug. 2001)

• Nigel Cameron, on the challenges of bioethics and how Christians ignore them
• David Blankenhorn, on the public meaning of marriage and the private sector and the family
• Robert Wuthnow, on creativity and faith
• Mortimer Adler, on philosophical theism and How to Think about God
• Roger Lundin, on the vision of William Blake
• Dana Gioia, on the place of poetry and the way words work
• Mary Midgley, on the ways science explains reality
• Ted Libbey, on the life and music of Edmund Rubbra

MHA Journal Vol. 61 (Mar./Apr. 2003)

• Ian Dowbiggin, on the history of the "right to die" movement
• Arthur J. Dyck, on Life's Worth: The Case against Assisted Suicide
• Daniel Dreisbach, on the building of Jefferson's "wall of separation"
• Michael L. Peterson, on the elements of a Christian philosophy of education
• Stephen Schwartz, on the differences between Balkan Muslims and those of Saudi Arabia
• Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, on how young people are taught to invest in themselves rather than family or community
• John H. Timmerman, on the person and poetry of Jane Kenyon

MHA Journal Vol. 66 (Jan./Feb. 2004)

• Leon Kass, on how various biotechnologies promise to fulfill certain legitimate human desires in illegitimate ways
• Nigel Cameron, on why American churches have been negligent in promoting robust thinking about the current bioethical crisis
• Susan Wise Bauer, on how adults can acquire many of the benefits of a classical education long after leaving school by reading wisely and well
• Esther Lightcap Meek, on belief, doubt, certainty, authority, and how knowledge (of God and other matters) is acquired, sustained, and properly recognized
• John Shelton Lawrence, on how John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Superman, and the governor of California all embody a great American myth
• Ralph C. Wood, on the disappointing discrepancies between Peter Jackson's films and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

MHA Journal Vol. 70 (Sept./Oct. 2004)

• W. Wesley McDonald, on the significance of Russell Kirk's themes of the "permanent things" and "the moral imagination"
• C. Ben Mitchell, on law, wisdom, and the possibilities of pastoral guidance on bioethical decisions
• Carl Elliott, on the medical industry's move from healing to enhancing self-esteem and idenity formation
• Richard Weikart, on the rise of "evolutionary ethics," the embrace toward ethical relativism, and the slide toward eugenics
• Christine Rosen, on how and why early 20th century American religious leaders encouraged eugenics in the name of moral progress
• Dana Gioia, on the decline in literary reading in America and on the cultural loss it signifies