Bøker av Francis Etheredge

"Francis Etheredge returns to the subject of bioethics with essays on loneliness, aloneness, euthanasia, meaning, anorexia and purpose, brain death and the life and death of Jesus Christ. Why? Because man, male and female, one in body and soul, suffers as a religious being. To be able, therefore, to respond mercifully and constructively to a variety of human wounds, opening up, again and again, the possibilities of life, we need to recognize that the whole of human personhood entails being-in-relationship: that man is a social being and exists in relation to God and neighbor: the God who comes to show us the truth-in-love that heals and calls us to share what we have received with our neighbor"--

"This catechesis on conception by Francis Etheredge explains what is probably one of the greatest transformations in the whole of nature: the changing outward expression of human development that shows the presence of the person from conception. In these pages, Francis seeks to use what is familiar, ancient, modern, scientific, experiential, personal, and philosophical to help us to appreciate the whole gift of God in the mystery of human conception. At the same time, he appeals to ordinary experience. Just as relationships are for the good of all, we can recognize that the completion of human development is a human right for all who are conceived - excluding no one and accepting everyone"--

"Are a "Prayer" and a "Kiss" irreconcilable? This is the question Francis Etheredge examines through this medley of "moments," both painful and beautiful, which are laid out as a kind of word-quilt that ranges over many years of life and writing. A theme among these "impressionistic" accounts of life is the "sharp thread" of an almost endlessly repetitive pain of "passing through" relationships. Marriage emerges as a triumph of God, reconciling the apparent contradiction between the "prayer" and the "kiss.""--