LEADER 00000cam 2200000 a 4500
001 ocm52947609
003 OCoLC
005 20101022010010.0
008 030826t20042004enk b 001 0 eng
010 2005285111
015 GBA3-U9674
020 0826462960
020 9780826462961
035 (OCoLC)52947609
040 UKM|beng|cUKM|dOCLCQ|dC#P|dOCL|dBAKER|dDLC|dNLGGC|dYDXCP
|dLVB|dAU@|dHEBIS|dWKM
049 STJJ
050 00 QM611|b.J65 2004
082 04 176|221
084 11.62|2bcl
100 1 Jones, David Albert.
245 14 The soul of the embryo :|ban enquiry into the status of
the human embryo in the Christian tradition /|cDavid
Albert Jones.
264 1 London ;|aNew York :|bContinuum,|c[2004]
264 4 |c©2004
300 v, 266 pages ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-261) and
indexes.
505 0 Moulded in the earth : the embryo in the Hebrew scriptures
: creation, providence, calling -- Curdled like cheese :
ancient embryology, Hippocrates and Aristotle -- Discarded
children : exposure, infanticide and abortion in ancient
Greece and Rome -- Grieving in Ramah : Jewish attitudes to
infanticide and abortion -- Medicinal penalties : early
Christianity and abortion : Celtic/Anglo-Saxon penances,
Greek/Latin canons -- Soul talk : soul as the principle of
life, body and soul, the spiritual soul -- Whence the
soul? : the church fathers on the origin of the soul : pre
-existence, traducianism, creationism -- The timing of
ensoulment : immediate and delayed animation from the
fathers to Thomas Aquinas
505 0 The embryonic Christ : the conception of Jesus : Chalcedon,
Maximus the Confessor on the embryo -- Imputed dignity :
Luther, Calvin and Barth : from essential to relational
categories -- Embryology through the looking-glass :
ovists and animalcultists, preformation, epigenesis,
embryology and ensoulment -- Probable sins and indirect
exceptions : casuistry, therapeutic abortion, probabilism,
application to the embryo -- The justice of miscarriage :
abortion law from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century
-- The embryo in isolation : in vitro fertilization,
personhood, identical twins, stem cell research -- The
least of these little ones : the theological status of the
embryo.
520 Contemporary ethical debates about the status of the human
embryo involve not only philosophical concerns, but
specifically religious arguments. This is a systematic
work on the history of Christian reflection on the human
embryo.
650 0 Human embryo|xReligious aspects|xChristianity.
650 0 Human reproduction|xReligious aspects|xChristianity.
650 0 Human reproduction|xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 Embryology, Human|xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 Embryology, Human|xReligious aspects.
938 Baker & Taylor|bBKTY|c33.95|d33.95|i0826462960|n0004370658
|sactive
938 YBP Library Services|bYANK|n100346639
994 02|bSTJ
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location
|
241.66 J76S |
Check Shelf |
|