Andrew Lustig

Bearing Witness

Science & Faith

“For three decades, Courtney Campbell has been an important voice in bioethics. In this book, rich with personal and narrative insight, he offers both a critique of and a constructive alternative to dominant trends in medicine and biomedical ethics. Campbell challenges recent efforts in secular bioethics to marginalize religious voices and calls on medicine to renew its vocational commitment to the healing of persons rather than to be understood as simply another career choice.”

Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine

Science & Faith

“In this book Allen Verhey reconfirms his standing as today's foremost expositor of the ways that a nuanced reading of Scripture can both inform and reform the moral minimalism of recent secular bioethics. Verhey analyzes a wide range of topics, including genetic interventions, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, end-of-life decisions, assisted suicide, and health-care allocation in an era of fiscal scarcity. He rejects simplistic readings of either Scripture or these difficult issues and instead explores, with a rich blend of insight, analysis, and exhortation, how attending to Scripture can challenge the 'strange' ethos of modern medicine — a medicine that focuses on procedures for informed consent rather than the substance of what is chosen, that reinforces an unbiblical dualism between our power to choose and the conditions of our embodiment, and that distorts the virtue of compassion by reducing patients to their pathologies. Throughout his discussion Verhey emphasizes the need for the church to be a community of memory, deliberation, and moral discernment. The excellence of this book prompts my deep sense of gratitude to its author for his faithfulness to Christian scholarship as a vocation.”