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Christian ethics--Methodist authors, Life and death, Power over--Religious aspects--Christianity, Sexual ethics, Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
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1991
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BJ1275.C62 1991eb
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248.4/87
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Christian ethics--Methodist authors, Life and death, Power over--Religious aspects--Christianity, Sexual ethics, Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
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Matters of Life and Death
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Other books by John B. Cobb, Jr. published by The Westminster Press
Process Theology as Political Theology Christ in a Pluralistic Age
With D. R. Griffin
Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition
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Matters of Life and Death
John B. Cobb, Jr.
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1991 John B. Cobb, Jr.
All rights reservedno part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review in magazine or newspaper.
Scripture quotations from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible are copyrighted 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and are used by permission.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cobb, John B. Matters of life and death / John B. Cobb, Jr. 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-664-25169-2 1. Christian ethicsMethodist authors. 2. Life and death, Power overReligious aspectsChristianity. 3. Sexual ethics. 4. Sex Religious aspectsChristianity. I. Title. BJ1275.C62 1991 248.4'87dc20 90-19894
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Contents
Introduction
7
1. The Right to Kill
19
2. The Right to Die
44
3. The Right to Live
69
4. The Right to Love
94
Epilogue: A Challenge to Christian Opinion
121
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Introduction
As I have grown older I have become more and more concerned that theologians should address the most difficult and controversial issues of their day. I have become impatient with theologians, including myself, for our collective failure to do this. We seem to think that our special province is religion and, specifically, beliefs about God and human beings abstracted from the more immediate issues facing individuals and society. Since most people, including pastors, are not very exercised about these matters, we are generally left in peace to write our books in discussion with one another. By focusing on questions of methodology we can insulate ourselves even further from the concerns of church people and the general public. We complain at times about the reduction of Christianity to a private and subjective sphere, and we even criticize the church for accepting this limited role, but we do little to break out of our own ghettoized existence.
Of course, there is a high price to be paid if we reject this narrow role. Our academic colleagues do not recognize our work outside that role as theological, since theology as an academic discipline does not address these public issues. We do not have academic competence in relation to the topics we address, so we are likely to make embarrassing errors or express naive ideas. And we involve theology in controversy within the church, thus threatening the relative safety it enjoys when it is ignored. Furthermore, it seems that little can be gained. The authority with which theologians once spoke has long since eroded both in society and in the church. Hence a theologian cannot expect to have any significant influence on the course of events or even on church pronouncements.
Since the price is high, and there is little likelihood of
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much influence, wisdom seems to support the prevailing silence. It seems that we theologians should know our place and stay there. If public issues are to be discussed, we should leave that to our colleagues, the ethicists.
The net effect of our collective silence, however, is that responsible contemporary Christian thinking is rarely brought to bear on the pressing issues that Christians and others face. I do not mean by this to disparage the statements of church leaders. Roman Catholics, especially, have not allowed contemporary theology to become entirely irrelevant to pronouncements on public issues, and from time to time the non-Catholic conciliar movement and individual Protestant denominations make helpful statements. But these statements rarely arise out of a healthy debate among the church's professional theologians, and their theological content is usually conventional. Inevitably, the majority of people, including the majority of church people, look elsewhere for guidance or simply consult their immediate feelings. It is time to risk another approach.
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