On Religion, Ethics, and Medicine (2024)

Provonsha, Jack W. Individuality, Power to Think and to Do: An Adventist’s Reflections on Religion, Ethics, and Medicine. Oak and Acorn, 2024. 368 pp.

“This book is comprised of two previous books by Jack W. Provonsha that we previously planned on publishing separately. The first is Making the Whole Person Whole: Papers and Presentations on Religion, Ethics, and Medicine (Loma Linda University Center for Christian Ethics, 2018). The second is Christian Ethics in a Situation of Change (Jack W. Provonsha, 1967), which consists of the theoretical portions of his doctoral dissertation at Claremont Graduate School. The dissertation title is An Appraisal of the Hallucinogenic Drugs From the Standpoint of a Christian Person—Agapeic Ethic.

Combining these two books into one volume has made them both more conveniently available. It has also made it possible to correct some typographical errors in Making the Whole Person Whole and to make one substantive correction: to change an error that listed Provonsha’s birthplace as Moab instead of Provo, Utah.

It is important to make these materials available despite their age because it is impossible to overstate the originality and continued timeliness of Provonsha’s thesis: It is not—most certainly not—that we always ought to do the most loving thing. It is that we always ought to do that which will make it possible for persons to do the most loving thing.”

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