Professional paper

Bioethical teaching of the Russian Orthodox Church

Andrej Čebotarev

Abstract

This article briefly researches the teaching of the Russian Orthodox Church on a series of bioethical issues that are barely known in Croatia. This current topic is not only very significant by itself, but it also enables something else as well. By careful reading, a great similarity of results may be seen in the solutions of modern issues of Church morality to which theologians of the Catholic Church came, and on the other side, Russian Orthodox theologians, by their own way, their own tradition and their own method. These practically identical results in the shadow of certain obstacles existing in relations between Churches still introduce new moments and hope for dialogue and for rapprochement.
Since bioethics has became a popular topic today on which a lot is being written about, finding an adequate bibliography is not a major problem. It is much harder to find in Croatia texts of Orthodox theology on this problem, although it is not an insurmountable one. It is much more important to find a document which expresses an official position of the Church and which represents guidelines for its future activities. This contribution is based on one such document issued by the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Hrčak ID:

83455

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/83455

Publication date:

30.6.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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