Does God Need Our Help?: Cloning, Assisted Suicide, & Other Challenges . .

by John F. Kilner

The Vital Questions series presents the thinking of knowledgeable, qualified authors on "vital questions" that Christians should be able to discuss intelligently. These concise books provide to-the-point answers and present the author's viewpoint, while allowing room for reader thought and disagreement. Does God Need Our Help? Stem cell research . . . cloning . . . end-of-life issues . . . infertility treatments . . . These topics are splashed across the media nearly every day. What does it all mean, and how are Christians to respond? In this important book, respected authors in the bioethics field not only inform readers of the latest advances in biotechnology but clearly state the biblical principles by which Christians can judge how these technologies are used. This book emerges from the collaborative research on biotechnology and ethics sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Tyler Hurst]

A fine survey, but ultimately suffers from the standard evangelical reductivism that is consistently on the back foot when it comes to bioethical issues. Evangelical bioethics needs to find some resources from the Christian tradition lest it degrade into proof-texting to get where (most of the time) intuition tells us to be.

[Mario Tafferner]

A helpful yet somewhat superficial introduction to Christian Bioethics. I truly appreciate the authors' Christan worldview.