Design and destiny : Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modification / edited by Ronald Cole-Turner.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008], ©2008.

vi, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

Religion and the question of human germline modification / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Judaism and germline modification / Elliot N. Dorff -- Roman Catholic magisterium and genetic research: an overview and evaluation / Thomas A. Shannon -- Traditional Christian reflection on reengineering human nature / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Germline gene modification and the human condition before God / Nigel M. de S. Cameron and Amy Michelle DeBaets -- Human germline therapy: proper human responsibility or playing God? / James J. Walter -- Germline genetics, human nature, and social ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Freedom, conscience, and virtue: theological perspectives on the ethics of inherited genetic modification / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Religion, genetics, and the future / Ronald Cole-Turner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227) and index.