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'It is notoriously difficult in bioethics to bring religious perspectives -- with their notions of soul, spirit, transcendence, createdness, divine purposiveness, and so on

-- to bear authoritatively on empirically scientific perspectives, or even on modern philosophical perspectives. While this contribution may not actually achieve a narrowing of that disconnect, it does offer vital insights from Shi‘a thought which open up promising possibilities for informed and mutually attentive dialogue.'

Dr Paul Janz, Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology, King’s College London