A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE BIOLOGICAL SCENE |
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| Authors: | Peter Baelz |
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| Affiliation: | Peter Baelz, Dean of Durham Cathedral, Durham DH1 3EQ, England, presented this paper at a meeting of the Science and Religion Forum on "The Ethical Challenge of Contemporary Biology" in Durham, England, 24–26 March 1983. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. The interaction of scientific, ethical, and theological concerns raises several distinct but related problems of continuity and discontinuity. The theologian's task is to articulate a unifying vision of God and the world. He must do justice to the discontinuities which exist between the sociobiological and the ethical points of view, but he cannot accept them as ultimate. Within his own discipline he is already confronted with analogous problems of continuity and discontinuity, for example, between creation and redemption. Concepts associated with love, such as freedom, risk, and patience, may prove more persuasive and coherent than concepts associated with omnipotence. |
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