People
This medieval author formulated "five ways" to argue for God's existence.
Thomas Aquinas
This idea posits that humanity is made in the likeness of its Creator
imago Dei (image of God)
This term refers to the voluntary termination of a pregnancy
Abortion
This form of "end of life care" has been the subject of controversy in Canada, as well as various US states and other countries
Physician-assisted suicide (or medical assistance in dying, or voluntary euthanasia)
The arguments for God from motion, contingency, and efficient causation were written by this figure in their massive Summa Theologiae
Thomas Aquinas
This figure became the subject of national debate after being found unresponsive in their home
Terri Schiavo
This way of reading Genesis 1-11 is a kind of middle way between strict literalism and loose metaphors
The mytho-historical interpretation
These two Abrahamic religions broadly accept the moral validity of abortion, they just have internal debates about when abortion is allowed
Judaism and Islam
Healthcare practices which identify some sorts of human life as more valuable than others using morally invalid reasoning and seek to establish them as a norm are referred to with this term
Eugenics
Literal interpretations, allegorical interpretations, mytho-historical interpretations, and genealogical interpretations are all used in arguments concerning these two figures
Adam and Eve
This figure argued that a recent Adam and Eve are scientifically possible if they're our genealogical ancestors
Joshua Swamidass
Christology
Regardless of how we define it, this concept should not be treated as synonymous with humanity
Personhood
Theology conducted from a position of absolute intellectual freedom is referred to by the (non-polemical) term
Liberal theology
This figure used the watchmaker analogy in their argument from design
William Paley
This saintly figure said that a miracle "happens not contrary to nature, but contrary to what we know as nature."
Augustine of Hippo
These gatherings of early Christians are thought by many to "settle" various theological issues
Ecumenical councils
Biomedical interventions that are used to improve human form/functioning beyond what is necessary to restore/sustain health are often referred to with this term
(Human) Enhancement
This term refers to the view that an imminent age of blessedness is coming
Millenanarianism
This argument for God's existence can be formulated as follows:
P1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause
P2. The universe began to exist
C. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence
Kalam cosmological argument
This professorial figure surveyed several theories of health, including function-based theories, normative theories, phenomenological theories, and social constructivist theories
Elizabeth Barnes
This way of describing God is sometimes printed on a shield to visually represent it
The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is not the Father; the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God
This view of death is the mainstream understanding in contemporary medicine
Whole-brain death
This term refers to the view that an idea can have loose, porous boundaries that resist formal definitions
Cluster concepts (or Ballung concepts)
Early Christians debated how the relationship between Jesus's humanity, divinity, and personhood ought to be understood, ultimately describing it like this at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD
One person with two natures