| contents |
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| introduction 1 |
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| part one: Bioethics |
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| chapter one responsibility for human life and its transmission |
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| I. meaning and value of human life |
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| II. The beginning off human liffe |
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| 1. the origin of the genotype |
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| 2. the moment of diversification |
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| 3. the cerebral cortex nd hominization |
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| 4. distincion between "human life" and "humnized life" |
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| III. The transmission of life |
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| 1. transmission of healthy life |
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| 2. responsibility for healthy life of the fetus and child |
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| 3. Popuation problems |
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| 4. sterlization |
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| 5. artificial intervention in human reproduction |
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| IV. Abortion |
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| 1. A moral and social-legal question |
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| 2. spontaneous and not so sopontaeous abortion |
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| 3. selective abortion |
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| 4. abortion as birth control |
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| 5. life-saving interruption of pregnancy |
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| 6. therapeutic abortion in the broder sense |
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| v. sins against human life |
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| 1. letting die |
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| 2. causing death by neligence |
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| 3. suicide |
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| 4. murder and participation in mass murder |
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| 5. the death penalty |
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| chapter two on health and healing |
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| I. meaning and value of human health and healing |
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| 1. christ the " saviour and the healer" |
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| 2. faith healing, praer and healing |
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| 3. sense and nonsense of sickness and suffering |
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| 4. what is human health? |
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| 5. personal and social responsibility for heath |
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| II. The healing profession |
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| 1. the ethos of the phsicion |
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| 2. Denial of death in medical practice |
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| 3. Suicide and euthanasia |
| 4. Duty to prevent suicide |
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| 5. Against legalization of euthanasia |
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| III. THE MOMENT OF DEATH AND THE PROCESS OF |
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| DYING |
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| 1. Cortical death versus cardiac arrest |
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| 2. Artificial reanimation |
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| 3. The irreversible coma |
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| 4. Organ transplant |
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| 5. Legal regulation of transplant from a cadaver |
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| IV. THE HEALING PROFESSION AND THE MORIBUND PATIENT |
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| 1. Favouring consciousness, freedom and |
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| communication |
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| 2. The moribund's patient's right to truth |
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| 3. Cooperation |
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| 4. After death |
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| V. ADDING LIFE TO THEIR DAYS OR PROLONGING THE |
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| DEATH PROCESS? |
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| II. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD |
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| 1. Abiding mission and changeable structures |
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| 2. From the beginnings to the Constantinian era |
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| 3. Martin Luther's "two reigns and regiments" |
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| 4. Powerless and prophetic presence |
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| III. THE WORLD AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES |
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| 1. One world and one history |
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| 2. Authentic secularity and a spurious secularism |
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| 3. Adoration in Spirit and truth as the guarantor of authentic secularity |
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| 4. Autonomous morality within the horizon of faith |
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| IV. VOCATION AND SANCTITY IN THE WORLD |
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| 1. On the history of a theology of vocation |
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| 2. Luther's concept of vocation |
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| 3. Sanctity in marriage and family |
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| 4. The crisis of the priestly vocation |
| 5. Vocation, profession and the "job" |
| 6. The arduous professions-vocations |
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| V. CONSERVING OR CHANGING THE WORLD? |
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| 1. Orientation towards the future and its implications |
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| 2. The ideology of progress and Christian sobriety |
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| 4. Process theology and ecology |
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| 5. A dynamic sacramental view |
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| 6. Human ecology and our final hope |
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| 7. For a sober and chastened anthropocentrism |
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| 8. Ecology and a new understanding of property and ownership |
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| 9. From a culture of wastefulness to a new asceticism |
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| III. ECOLOGICAL CONSCIENCE AND ITS OBSTACLES |
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| 1. The ideology of constant growth and expansion |
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| 2. Established habits and patterns |
| 3. Vested interests |
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| 4. Nationalism and hegemonism |
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| 5. The megalopolis |
| 6. Science and technocracy |
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| 7. What kind of radicalism? |
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| IV. ECOLOGICAL STRATEGY |
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| 1. Ecological education |
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| 2. Personal and shared initiatives |
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| 3. Ecological politics |
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| 4. Reconciliation between man and technology |
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| 5. Global development |
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| 6. Nuclear energy and alternatives |
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| 7 Limite of population growth |
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| 4. A prophetic ministry |
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| IV. HISTORICITY AND CONFLICT |
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| 1. Confronting "historical materialism" |
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| 2. Dialectic materialism and the role of conflict |
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| 3. Christians and socialism |
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| V. ECONOMY A COMMON ETHICAL TASK |
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| 1. The great heresy |
270 |
| 2. God's saving justice and people's solidly united response |
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| 3. Economy at the service of human needs |
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| 4. Responsibility and subsidiarity |
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| 5. Creative liberty |
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| 6. Solidarity and fidelity |
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| 7. Unethical conduct in business |
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| VI. BEYOND CAPITALISM |
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| 1. The free social market system |
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| 2. Politics and economy |
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| 3. Ownership and labour |
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| 4. The key role of work |
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| 5. The function of capital and interest |
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| 6. The role of management |
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| 7. His majesty, the customer and just prices |
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| chapter eight the ethics of politics |
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| 1. the political dimension of social life: all-ptrvansive but not exclusive |
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| 2. political thelogy |
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| 3. christian politics or politics of christians |
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| 4 church community and politics |
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| 5. the horizon of politics interaction and responsibility |
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| 6. the possibility and necessity of a political ethics |
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| II. Politics in the light of the history of creation, sin, redemption |
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| 1 redemption-liberationn and forgiveness in the midst of conflict |
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| 2. the role of the state in a fallen-redeemed world |
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| 3. taxes |
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| 4. power, redeemed or unredeemed |
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| 5. criminal law, enforcement and rehabilition |
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| IV. Towards a world community |
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| 1. NEW DMENSIONS OF NATURAL LAW AND THE "LAW OOF NATIONS" |
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| 2. SOVEREIGN STATES AND SUPER-POWERS |
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| 3. THE THREAT OF A SUEPER-STATE |
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| 4. THE FEDRAL PRINCIPLE OF A WORLD AUTHORITY |
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| III. LIBERATION FROM THE SLAVERY OF WAR |
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| 1. The time has come |
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| 2. Conscientious objection and prophetic protest |
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| 3. Spirituality and relevance of non-violent action |
| 4. Disarmament |
| IV. PEACE RESEARCH AND PEACE POLICY |
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| 1. Meaning and purpose of peace research |
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| 2. From peace research to peace policy |
416 |
| 3. New structures for peace |
417 |
| V. PEACE EDUCATION |
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| 1. Spirit and purpose of peace education |
418 |
| 2. Learning the art of peace in the midst of conflict |
420 |
| V. THE CHURCH, SACRAMENT OF PEACE |
421 |