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Christian Bioethics Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2009
Christian Bioethics 2009 15(2):101-106; doi:10.1093/cb/cbp014
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Christian Bioethics issue: Diakonia II: Care-Taking in the Medical Realm and its Political Implementation [View the issue table of contents]

Diakonia II: Caretaking in the Medical Realm and its Political Implementation

Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, Freigericht, Germany

Address correspondence to: Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, European Programs, International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, Buchbergstrasse 17, 63579 Freigericht, Germany. E-mail: Corinna.Delkeskamp-Hayes{at}gmx.de


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This introduction to Christian Bioethics 15/2 focuses on the challenges which secular moral reconstruction and secular political implementation presents for Christian diakonia. It summarises the various Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox ways in which Christians’ loving service to the world have been integrated either into the secular state's provision of social welfare or into the Church's liturgical life by the authors of this issue. This summary centres on questions concerning the political nature of Christian charity, its role within the church, the implication of public funding for the integrity of the Christian service, the relationship between love and justice, and the impact of different kinds of feminism on Christian diaconic work.

Keywords: Christian love, diakonia, feminism, public social services, social justice, subsidiarity


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