Sources and directions of a contemporary Jewish bioethics reflection
ks. Artur Aleksiejuk
Abstract
The contemporary bioethical debate is in essence unthinkable without taking into consideration the ecumenical or interfaith context. Thinkers engaged in dialogues often regard it as insignificant. As a result, issues related to bioethics are almost absent in official Christian-Jewish dialogues. Although Jews and Christians share a similar anthropological vision, many of them remain divided in questions of bioethics. Jewish bioethics fully deserves to be the subject of Christian interest. This publication responds to this need and discusses the sources and trends that are prevalent in contemporary Jewish bioethical reflection. The presentation of the rabbinical dialectical casuistry, which reveals the characteristic Jewish bioethical way of reasoning, argumentation and resolving problematic issues of bioethics has a specific place in the reflections made in this article.
Keywords:
Jewish bioethics, Jewish medical ethics, medical halacha
Aleksiejuk, ks. A. (2013). Sources and directions of a contemporary Jewish bioethics reflection. Theological Yearbook, 55(1), 185–217. Retrieved from https://ojs.chat.edu.pl/index.php/rt/article/view/33
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