A Pocket Guide to Ethical Issues
Published on 24. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7459-5158-4 (ISBN)
Description
- Is there such a thing as a just war? - What are the moral issues surrounding genetic engineering? - Is it ethical to create babies for infertile couples? - Can it ever be right to help someone else to die? - Is the death penalty justified? - How can we care for the environment? - What about animal rights? - What are the challenges of globalisation? These are some of the central issues addressed in this book. The author introduces the issues and the questions surrounding them and offers his own perspective. This book follows on in series from A Pocket Guide to Sects and New Religions (2005) and A Pocket Guide to the Bible (2004).
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
SPCK Publishing
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7459-5158-4 (9780745951584)
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ANDREW GODDARD is an Anglican priest teaching Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is a member of the Theology Faculty, Oxford University and author of The Moral Leader (with James Jones for IVP) and Living the Word, Resisting the World: The Life and Thought of Jacques Ellul (Paternoster).