At the boundary : on the contribution of theological anthropology to bioethics

Abstract

I understand my paper as a donne a penser: an instigation to think, rather than a systematic articulation of the relation between theological anthropology and bioethics. The underlying presumption is that a theological contribution, whether in bioethics or any other field, requires of the theologian a personal commitment to a particular faith tradition, but also openness to the conditions of universal moral communication, beyond the limits of one’s specific theological affiliation.