Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities
Bunch, Wilton H., Anglican Theological Review
Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000. 178 pp. $20.00 (cloth).
The issue of personhood has been central to the development of ethics in the last quarter century. The intensity of the debate on this subject has increased so that today we have reached the point that it has been said that there are only two types of bioethicists: those who explicitly distinguish between "humans" and "persons" and those who make the distinction implicitly. Jean Elshtain enters the conversation by asking, "Who are we?"
Her first answer, quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is, "Whoever I …
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Publication information:
Article title: Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities.
Contributors: Bunch, Wilton H. - Author.
Journal title: Anglican Theological Review.
Volume: 83.
Issue: 2
Publication date: Spring 2001.
Page number: 330+.
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