Issue 1, 2001
Volume 7, Number 1 · Seven articles
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Church and Culture
Human Life, Natural Law, and Pastoral Care
Why do things get worse so fast once a culture approves of killing? J. Budziszewski answers that conscience is suppressed, not eroded, and that its denied needs for confession, atonement, reconciliation and justification push people into further wrong.
J. Budziszewski14 min read -
Church and Culture
Death and euthanasia: Some Prior Questions
Why do arguments about physician-assisted suicide go nowhere? Nigel Cameron says the real disagreement lies underneath, in what it means to be human, how we should die, what a physician is for and what bioethics has become.
Nigel M. de S. Cameron8 min read -
Church and Culture
A Biblical Ethic for the End of Human Life
What does Scripture say about suicide, prolonging life and euthanasia? James Edwards builds a biblical ethic on two principles, humanity made in God’s image as stewards of life and believers bought with a price, and applies them to the dying.
James Edwards8 min read -
Suffering
Notes on a Theology of Suffering
Is there a difference between pain and suffering, and does the gospel say anything to it? C. Ben Mitchell classifies the kinds of suffering, grounds a theology of suffering in the fall and in the hope of the world to come, and asks what the church must do for the dying.
C. Ben Mitchell19 min read -
Suffering
Deborah’s Prayer
How does a believer give thanks in the middle of a long and terminal illness? Deborah and Lyle Thorpe’s prayer of thanksgiving and praise, drawn from Scripture, rests in God’s sovereign care and fixes its eyes on the unseen things that last forever.
Deborah Thorpe & Lyle Thorpe3 min read -
The Presbyterian Church
PCUSA Moving Toward Policy Statement on Euthanasia
Is the General Assembly about to speak on euthanasia? Terry Schlossberg recalls the 1995 study guide that fewer than fifteen congregations used, and urges careful congregational study before any policy statement is written.
Terry Schlossberg2 min read -
Scripture
Bible Study of the Book of Revelation, Study 6: Chapters 8-9, The Trumpets of God Blow a Warning to the World
What are the trumpets of Revelation 8 and 9 meant to tell us? Mark Atkinson reads them as a call to repentance that answers the prayers of the saints, warns of a widening judgment and shows God still in command of the world’s calamities.
Mark Atkinson6 min read
