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| Biblical Quotations | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| From Christian Bioethics to Secular Bioethics: The Establishment of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Morality | |
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| Can Morality be Sectarian? | |
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| Christian Bioethics: Confused and Eclipsed | |
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| Christian vs. Secular Bioethics: The Disappearance of a Difference | |
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| Moral Crises and the Medieval Faith in Reason | |
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| From the Reformation and the Enlightenment to Secular Bioethics | |
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| The Enlightenment and its Dirty Hands | |
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| Faith in Secular Rationality Unshaken: Secular Medical Ethics and the Medical Humanities | |
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| Why a Canonical, Content-full Secular Bioethics Cannot be Justified in General Secular Terms: Content Requires Assumptions | |
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| From a Libertarian to a Liberal Cosmopolitan: The Background of Post-Traditional Christianity | |
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| Christian Bioethics Reconsidered | |
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| At the Roots of Bioethics: Reason, Faith, and the Unity of Morality | |
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| Religious and Secular Ethics: Rethinking the Project of Morality | |
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| Pluralism and Conflict in Ethics and Bioethics: The Right, the Good, the Particular, and God | |
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| Immanuel Kant and his As-If God | |
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| The Necessity of Contingency: Hegel and the Justification of Moral Particularity | |
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| Rationality, Belief, and Kierkegaard: Being a Christian in the Post-Christian Age | |
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| Reason, Faith, and Bioethics | |
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| Christian Bioethics as a Human Project: Taking Immanence Seriously | |
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| The Enlightenment's Bequest | |
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| Knowledge, Morality, and Religion as Limited Human Projects | |
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| Three Visions of the Secular Cosmopolis: Living in a World Deaf to God | |
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| Christianity Transformed: Towards a Christian Bioethics Without Transcendence | |
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| Christian Bioethics Reconsidered | |
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| Bioethics and Transcendence: At the Heart of the Culture Wars | |
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| Sects, Cults, Fundamentalism, and Traditional Christian Bioethics | |
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| From Discursive Reason to Spiritual Change | |
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| Disbelief: A Moral Choice, Not a Miscalculation | |
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| Christian Bioethics: The Knowledge of the Heart and the Natural Law | |
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| Nature, Natural Law, and the Fall | |
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| Knowledge as a Spiritual Journey | |
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| Christian Bioethics and Theological Knowledge | |
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| Moral Theology, Christian Bioethics, and the Community of Knowers | |
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| Knowing Truly: Bishops, Councils, Popes, and Prophets | |
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| Two Senses of Theology, Two Senses of Christian Bioethics | |
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| Bioethics in Time and with Persons | |
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| Procreation: Reproduction, Cloning, Abortion, and Birth | |
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| Out of Step: The Traditional Christian Bioethics of Sexuality versus the Emerging Secular Liberal Cosmopolitan Consensus | |
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| Bioethics as a Lived Ethic | |
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| The Mystery of Marriage | |
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| Sexuality: Rightly and Wrongly Directed | |
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| The Fruitful Union of Adam and Eve: Seeking Help to Reproduce | |
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| Cloning, Making Embryos, and Using Embryos | |
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| Contraception and a World Well Populated | |
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| Sterilization, Sex-change Operations, Alterations in Sexual Identity, and Genetic Engineering | |
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| Premarital Sex, Contraception for the Unmarried, and AIDS | |
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| Abortion, Miscarriage, and Birth | |
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| Summary: Why a Christian Bioethics of Reproduction is so Strange | |
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| Suffering, Disease, Dying, and Death: The Search for Meaning | |
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| What Does it All Mean? Facing Finitude | |
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| Death, Temptation, and Sin: The Cosmic Narrative | |
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| Against Medicine as an Idol: Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment | |
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| Why This is all so Different | |
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| Suicide and Euthanasia | |
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| Death and Transplantation | |
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| Miracles, Sins, Devils, and Forgiveness | |
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| Providing Health Care: Consent, Conflicts of Interest, the Allocation of Medical Resources, and Religious Integrity | |
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| Putting Medicine in its Place: Health and the Pursuit of Salvation | |
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| Consent, Deceit, and Physicians: Free and Informed Consent Reconsidered | |
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| Providing Health Care in a Post-Christian Age | |
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| Quarantining and Secularizing Christianity: Religion as a Private Matter | |
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| The Integrity of Christian Health Care Institutions | |
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| Christian Bioethics in a Post-Christian World | |
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| Living after Christendom | |
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| Will Austin, Texas, be the Fourth Rome? | |
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| Index | |