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Future Resurrection and the Right to Die: Using Strong Theology in Response to Shifting Societal Values

Monday, November 14, 2016

In times of pain, suffering, and loss of control, appeals to compassion and autonomy can make the “right to die” seem reasonable and attractive, and PAD seem forgivable—or even sanctioned. Despite the appeal of PAD, believers can be trusted to discern its wrongness when we make loving and impassioned appeals to historical Christian theology. Every believer can wield a sanctified moral reasoning that cuts carefully and humbly through the noise and appeal of popular notions of love, compassion, and autonomy.

Him Before All: Wisdom to Inform Bioethical Conversation

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Bioethical dilemmas are being explored everywhere. Moral questions embedded in the application of medical technology are not reserved for elite medical roundtables. Rather, ethical decisions are the prevailing substance of entertainment. Stories do touch our souls.

Him Before Us: Wisdom to Inform Bioethical Conversation

Friday, March 31, 2017

The prevailing cultural narrative, woven into routine dialogue and highlighted throughout the entertainment industry, turns on how the individual alone must define what is good using one’s internal moral compass. The frame of reference for making optimal moral choices is exclusively located within the uniqueness of the autonomous person, who applies private and personal criteria to achieve happiness, wholeness, and significance.

C. S. Lewis and The Abolition of Man

Thursday, June 15, 2017

In The Abolition of Man—published nearly 75 years ago—C. S. Lewis speaks indirectly, though perhaps prophetically, to our current complexities—reminding us that there is truly nothing new under the sun. In the title chapter of the book, Lewis asks the question, “In what sense is Man the possessor of increasing power over Nature?”[2] Are we able to have the control over Nature and live the autonomous lives we desire? In our attempt to understand and fully live out what it means to be human, is it possible to conquer those aspects of Nature we believe hinder, diminish, or destroy our flourishing, thereby solidifying our humanity?

Protecting the Healthcare Provider's Right of Conscience

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer 2004)

Human Machines: A Review of the Movie A.I.

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2002)

A Grand Illusion: Oregon's Attempt to Control Death Through Physician-Assisted Suicide

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2002)

The Ends Don't Justify the Genes

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2002)

Addressing Issues of Moral Complicity: When? Where? Why? and Other Questions

Dignity Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 2003)

Biotechnology, Human Enhancement, and the Ends of Medicine

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)

The Physician-Patient Relationship: Moral Agency in Balance

Dignitas Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter 2011)

From the Director's Desk (Summer 2012)

Dignitas Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

Conference Update: Reclaiming Dignity in a Culture of Commodification

Dignitas Vol. 19, No. 3 (Fall 2012)

Her Dignity Network Launch

Dignitas Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 2013)

POLST and Patient-Centered Care: A Commentary on Grant and Anderson-Shaw

Dignitas Vol. 22, No. 4 Supplement (Winter 2015)

From the Directors Desk - Summer 2016

Dignitas Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2016)

Book Review: Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Dignitas Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2017)

Paradigms of Decision-Making with the Maturing Child or Adolescent

Dignitas Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2017)
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