Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Whole

The Embodied Character of Salvation and the Basis of Bioethics

A Lecture by Ken Myers

Executive Producer, MARS HILL AUDIO Journal

September 30, 2005

7:30 p.m.

Belmont Church

Nashville, Tennessee

Much discussion about bioethical issues is based on principles rooted in the “rights” of “persons.” While such principles are useful for protecting some important ethical boundaries, they are often employed in a way that values human autonomy more than divinely established order in matters of human life and death. In this lecture, Ken Myers will argue that the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the redemption that they accomplish, have deep implications for how we should think about bioethical responsibility for issues ranging from cloning to fertility treatments to embryonic stem cell research.

Ken Myers is the host and producer of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, a bimonthly audio magazine that examines issues in contemporary culture from the vantage point of Christian conviction. He has served in different editorial capacities with Christianity Today, Eternity, and This World: A Journal of Religion and Public Life. For eight years he was a producer and editor for National Public Radio, working for much of that time as arts and humanities editor for the news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Directions:

Belmont Church is located at 68 Music Square East (also 16^th Ave. South), just east of the northern edge of Vanderbilt University.

• From I-40, go west on Broadway, then south on 21^st Avenue South.

• From I-440, go north on Hillsboro Pike, which is also 21^st Avenue South.

• From 21^st Avenue South, take Grand Avenue east until it meets Music Square East/16^th Avenue South. Belmont Church is at this intersection.

Sponsored by The Humanitas Project: A Center for Bioethics Education

931-528-2408 • www.humanitas.org