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Ethics and Suffering

 How are Christians to respond to this shift in the ethics of medicine today? The path that seems most appropriate is to begin with recognizing the distinctiveness, in our case, of a Lutheran Christian worldview. It is a worldview that invites us to be “in the world, but not of the world.”

Ethics and Suffering

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