We are delighted to announce the release of two new books by Dr. Ashley Moyse, McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, Christ Church, University of Oxford.
Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion
Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion had its roots in the Third Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion where scholars laboured to respond to questions that emerge from the practice of medicine, which exists because of the need to attend to physical and psychical limits and frailties. Yet with the arrival of genomic medicine, novel biotechnologies, and fringe sciences, contemporary medicine also pursues ever-new possibilities for our bodies. In such a climate, biomedical professionals find themselves confronting pressing questions: What is the relationship between body and soul, and between individual persons and the community? To whom does the body belong? What is the norm and ideal for human bodies? How should medicine response to suffering and death?
The Art of Living for a Technological Age
The Art of Living for A Technological Age sketches the crisis of our late modern age, where persons are enamored by the promises of progress and disciplined to form by the power of technology--the ontology of our age. Yet, it also offers a response, attending to those performative activities, educative and transformative social practices that might allow us to live humanly and bear witness to human being (becoming) for a technological age. As such, it is an exemplary example of the goals and outcomes of the Dispatches series, the individual volumes of which draw on diverse theological resources in order to offer urgent responses to contemporary crises. Authors in the series introduce succinct and provocative arguments intended to provoke dialogue and exchange of ideas, while setting in relief the implications of theology for political and moral life.
