#BTColumn – The onus is on us (Part 1)
Article by July 20, 2021
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by
Adrian Sobers
“Yet you have made them [human beings] a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honour.” – (
Psalm 8:5, NRSV) “Glory to man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.” – (
Algernon Swinburne, Hymn of Man)
Whether interacting with scholars or the streets, Jesus grounded their misunderstanding(s) not in Scripture, but on their misunderstanding of, and/or failure to, accept them. He placed the onus on us: “have you never read in the Scriptures …” (
What does it mean to be human?
How legal systems answer and should answer this profoundly important question is addressed by O. Carter Snead in
Professor Snead is well qualified to undertake this project. He is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and previously served on the US President’s Council on Bioethics, the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Bioethics and the International Bioethics Committee. He led the US government delegation to UNESCO serving as its chief negotiator in drafting the
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights and is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, the principal bioethics advisory body to the Pope.