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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Peter Lawler
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