Life on the Line

James F. Childress --University of Virginia "I enthusiastically commend John Kilner's Life on the Line. It offers a very careful and helpful interpretation of a Christian ethics as God-centered, reality-bounded, and love-impelled and then uses this framework to illuminate two major contemporary problems in health care -- ending patients' lives and allocating vital resources. In this book Kilner makes a major contribution to Christian ethics, particularly in its application to health care." Arthur J. Dyck --Harvard Divinity School "For anyone who wishes to learn what ethical guidance a Christian biblical perspective can offer when illness puts 'life on the line, ' this book is an excellent place to begin. . . . The book should be widely read: what is has to say will nourish the individual reader and will offer valuable suggestions for public policy." Robert Wennberg --Westmont College "Few contemporary issues are of greater importance than those addresses in this book -- ending patients' lives and allocating scarce medical resources. To these tough issues John Kilner brings appropriate Christian sensitivities, a wealth of biblical knowledge, theological and ethical sophistication, common sense, and considerable practical knowledge from his own firsthand experience in the hospital setting. Professor Kilner is himself a special resource that the evangelical community, along with the larger Christian community, should liberally take advantage of."