After God
Subtitle: morality and bioethics in a secular age
By: by H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Yonkers, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780881414998; 9780881415001
Subjects: Bioethics; History; Philosophy and religion; Applied ethics
Other titles: Bioethics in the ruins of Christendom and the failure of the Enlightenment
Description: Engelhardt invites readers to understand what it means to live in a world after God, where questions of sin and virtue have been replaced with life-and-death-style choices. After God provides a dark prophetic vision. But there is still hope. As Engelhardt argues, In this culture, children now grow up apart from and defended against a recognition of the God Who lives. They are nurtured in a social fabric that is structured so as to avoid a recognition of, much less an encounter with, God. Nevertheless... a traditional Christianity has endured, even though its morality and bioethics have become ever more strongly counter-cultural. The source of this traditional Christian otherness over against the surrounding post-theistic culture lies in the origins of Christianity itself, in the Christianity of the Apostles and the Fathers, namely, in Orthodox Christianity. Against the tenor of the times, disregarding the animus to set traditional Christianity aside, and despite heretics prominent within its fold, Orthodox Christianity remains a light in a world after God. -- ‡c From back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.