Few questions engage the human mind and have such timeless relevance as those to do with the origin and purpose of life. Seeking to answer such questions inevitably brings to the fore numerous disciplines—cosmology, biology, mathematics, geology, philosophy—and it therefore presents as a daunting task to comprehensively interact with, let alone challenge, the mainstream schools of thought. In his book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

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Medical Ethics: Christian Perspectives on Life and Death – MP3 audio files available for CASE Associates

On the 21st March 2009 CASE ran a conference focusing on significant issues in the ethically-charged field of medicine. The conference programme ran as follows:

• Dr Andrew Cole: Why Should Christians be Interested in Ethics in Medicine?

• Dr Megan Best: Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life

• Dr Patrina Caldwell: Medical Research Involving

Medical Ethics: Christian Perspectives on Life and Death

On the 21st March 2009 CASE ran a conference focusing on significant issues in the ethically-charged field of medicine. The conference programme ran as follows:

• Dr Andrew Cole: Why Should Christians be Interested in Ethics in Medicine?

• Dr Megan Best: Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life

• Dr Patrina Caldwell: Medical Research Involving Children

• Dr John Dearin: End of Life Issues -

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Clive Hamilton is well-known for his radical critique of Western capitalism and consumerism. Kamal Weerakoon reviews his latest book The Freedom Paradox, in which Hamilton argues for an alternative basis for social interaction. Clive Hamilton’s thesis is that to be truly free humans must live in accord with our ‘moral self ’. However, as Kamal Weerakoon argues in his review, an autonomously-derived morality cannot deliver true freedom. (See

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In the 4th edition of this important book, John Stott continues to urge Christians to engage with ethical issues, including new issues in bioethics.

The past 20 years has seen a growing interest among evangelical Christians in developing biblical responses to ethical and social issues. One of the leading evangelicals who has long argued for greater engagement with our society through presenting Christian perspectives on social issues is John Stott,

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In considering both biological and biblical perspectives, Dr Megan Best contends that destructive research on human embryos means there are more lives at stake than may be initially apparent.

During the public debate in Australia preceding the passing of Federal legislation allowing destructive research on human embryos in 2002, I remember reading newspaper reports that the frozen excess embryos in question were (a) dead, (b) merely human cells and

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In his third 2007 New College Lecture Prof O’Donovan considered resolving to do what is right.

When we ask about the world’s repertoire of good things, good relations, good events, good promises, we can go into much specialised detail without ceasing to speak in general terms. Each area of our experience of the world has its own tract of moral discussion: bioethics, discussing whether the human embryo is a person; political ethics, discussing

In his second 2007 New College Lecture Prof. Oliver O’Donovan focussed on admiring what is good.

In describing the core of the moral point of view in a biblical metaphor as “wakefulness”, we have observed that our moral thinking makes a journey from observation to obligation, from the goodness of the world to the rightness of some action that is available to us to do. The good, which is the reason presupposed in any purposeful action, is

Explore ‘Moral Reasoning’ with one of the world’s formost Christian ethicists and theologians.

In his first New College Lecture Professor Oliver O’Donovan used the metaphor of “wakefulness” - the mind alert to shape decisions and actions, to consider what it means for humans to make right choices based on what is “good” and “right”.

You have invited me to make the long journey from Europe to Australia. In return I am inviting you to

A watch has gone missing. A nine-year-old boy is angry. But given Jesus’ command about how you should treat your enemies, how will he respond?

I’m feeling stoked with my nine-year old, who has just exercised one of the genuine and most elusive human virtues. And in time for Christmas, too.

It started with what might be considered an overly compassionate move by my wife: she let the local maniac in to play. This boy speeds up the second law of

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