Listening to Biotechnology:

What It Tells Us about Our Souls

 

Peter Augustine Lawler, PhD

 

October 5-6, 2007

 

Belmont Church, Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

 

Session I – 7:30 pm – Friday, October 5

Selling Embryos, Buying Kidneys: The Problem of Human Dignity in America

[download mp3 audio]

 

Session II – 9:00 am – Saturday, October 6

Longer Life, Perfect Health, Pleasant Moods: How It Became a Sin to Be Normal

[download mp3 audio]

 

Break – 10:15 to 10:45 am

 

Session III – 10:45 am – Saturday, October 6

Individualism: The Democratic “Heart Disease” and Why Christianity is the Cure

[audio download unavailable due to recording difficulties]

 

 

Peter Augustine Lawler is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College.  He is also executive editor of the acclaimed journal Perspectives on Political Science and the author of several books, including Postmodernism Rightly Understood and Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future.  His latest book, published in July, 2007, is Homeless and at Home in America:  Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place.

 

 

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