David Albert Jones is Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University College, London, UK.
"...a fascinating historical study of what people have thought,
from the earliest biblical times, about the human soul before
birth". -- The Daily Telegraph
"The book presents a scholarly yet accessible interdisciplinary
analysis of the tradition of the Christian thinking on the status
of the embryo, and a careful, powerful and fair theological and
philosophical case against the destruction of the human embryo from
conception. It is to be highly recommended." -Tablet, John Keown,
5th February 2005
'Archbishop Rowan Williams describes the book as 'a valuable
contribution to a mist important debate'. Quite so. It is to be
highly recommended.' - Adapted from a Tablet review by John Keown,
Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at Georgetown
University, in Triple Helix
'In providing a systematic historical account of Christian and
other approaches to the embryo, David Jones offers some fascinating
material for reflection.' '...this book provides valuable
material for a principled rather than merely pragmatic reflection
on our attitude to this most vulnerable phase of life.'
*Andrew Fox, Epworth Review, April 2006*
'The scope of his work is impressive and the topic extraordinarily
significant, He deals carefully with a wide variety of primary
sources, and he reflects insightfully on these sources and their
theological and ethical implications...[an] important book.'~
Michael J. Gorman, Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol 19, No. 1
"David Jones (Professor of Bioethics, St Mary's College,
Twickenham) has provided a scholarly and insightful contribution to
this field, with its complex intersection of theology, philosophy,
ethics, jurisprudence and science." - Reformed Theological
Review
'A scholarly contribution to the history, background and detail of
the human embryo in medical, theological and moral terms. It
deserves to be studied both in itself and in the important reminder
of our essential human being, where we come from, what we are and
what significance we have and share in this world and in
eternity'
*Theology*
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