Comments on: Incarnation & Bioethics: the vindication of finitude http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/incarnation-bioethics-the-vindication-of-finitude/ Serving the joyful cultivation of the theological craft for the life of the church: inquiring honestly, deliberating wisely, acting faithfully Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kent Eilers http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/incarnation-bioethics-the-vindication-of-finitude/#comment-17522 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:22:03 +0000 http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/?p=3168#comment-17522 I don’t follow your questions Renston. Waters’ point in the first quote is to point to the trend in modern medicine to transcend finite limitations. And the second doesn’t seem to suggest what you suppose.

Perhaps I am just missing the heart of your questions. Maybe you could be more specific.

]]> By: Rentson http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/incarnation-bioethics-the-vindication-of-finitude/#comment-17498 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:53 +0000 http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/?p=3168#comment-17498 Nice. But some questions. Your two major quotes seem to be quite different.

From your second quote: Is ordinary life therefore infinite? Then why ask for more; e.g., “heaven” and so forth?

From your first: Are we therefore to help people leave this life, confident of another one?

]]> By: Jim Reitman http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/incarnation-bioethics-the-vindication-of-finitude/#comment-17483 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:44:30 +0000 http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/?p=3168#comment-17483 For any interested, a closely related secular counterpart to Waters’ work was written in 1993 by then-president Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center for Bioethics; the book is called The Troubled Dream of Life.

]]> By: Kent Eilers http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/incarnation-bioethics-the-vindication-of-finitude/#comment-17480 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:10:43 +0000 http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/?p=3168#comment-17480 I am wading in waters you are more capable to swim. Thanks for the comments and the links.

]]> By: Jim Reitman http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/incarnation-bioethics-the-vindication-of-finitude/#comment-17478 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:15:50 +0000 http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/?p=3168#comment-17478 Good stuff, Kent. From what I have gleaned in OT Wisdom, the “vindication of finitude” is equally at home in this body of literature in grounding bioethical decisionmaking, as exemplified by the dilemmas of assisted suicide, medical futility, and pregnancies with fatal genetic anomalies.

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