Euthanasia: A Theological Approach PDF
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This work is a chapter taken from The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (December, 2013).
"One of the ways by which the level of a society’s culture may be measured is how it treats its members both at the beginning and at the end of life. Much of what our senses and imagination are exposed to in our times could be described in terms of a distortion or perversion of the point at which life begins, that is to say, in terms of sex outside marriage, and the point at which biological life ends, that is to say, in terms of extreme acts of violence.
"Now, one of the consequences of the Teresa Schiavo case is that it has forced us once again to revisit and to seek to understand, in the context of 21st century American social, legal and medical values and progress, the Christian perspective on questions pertaining to the end of our biological human existence.
The Schiavo case, I maintain, has brought into sharp relief just how important Orthodox theology is to our modern age; just how much of a contribution it could make to the seemingly insurmountable moral dilemmas of our times.
Many Christians, of all denominations, pleaded in favour of the preservation of Terri Schiavo’s life; but many Christians, it must be conceded, were persuaded by the arguments of the various court rulings, allowing doctors to remove from her the means of sustaining her life.
"One of the ways by which the level of a society’s culture may be measured is how it treats its members both at the beginning and at the end of life. Much of what our senses and imagination are exposed to in our times could be described in terms of a distortion or perversion of the point at which life begins, that is to say, in terms of sex outside marriage, and the point at which biological life ends, that is to say, in terms of extreme acts of violence.
"Now, one of the consequences of the Teresa Schiavo case is that it has forced us once again to revisit and to seek to understand, in the context of 21st century American social, legal and medical values and progress, the Christian perspective on questions pertaining to the end of our biological human existence.
The Schiavo case, I maintain, has brought into sharp relief just how important Orthodox theology is to our modern age; just how much of a contribution it could make to the seemingly insurmountable moral dilemmas of our times.
Many Christians, of all denominations, pleaded in favour of the preservation of Terri Schiavo’s life; but many Christians, it must be conceded, were persuaded by the arguments of the various court rulings, allowing doctors to remove from her the means of sustaining her life.
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