Orthodox church and medicine. Conflict or interaction? Historical meeting at the area of the district clinical hospital Orthodox church and medicine. Conflict or interaction?
Orthodox church and medicine. Conflict or interaction? Historical meeting at the area of the district clinical hospital
Orthodox church and medicine. Conflict or interaction? Historical meeting at the area of the district clinical hospital
– We are participants in the historical event. Never in the history of the district clinical hospital and the Khanty-Mansiysk diocese, there was no such thing in the same audience to meet the priest and a team of the medical institution, "the speech of a candidate of philosophical sciences, a doctrine, candidate of theology, professor of the Kiev spiritual Academy of Cleanika Znamensky Temple, .
The task of the priest is to clarify the position of the church, her view of medicine, for those problematic issues in which there are disagreements between representatives of the Church and representatives of the medical community.
"Orthodox Church and Medicine. Conflict or interaction "- the topic of meeting two structures that are engaged in human healer, with the only difference that the church looks at a person and his health in terms of personality, spiritual sense. Because the earth's life is considering as a run-up of eternal life. That is why the ministers of the church consider the spiritual health of a person primary, and even then – the health of mental and health is bodily. The personality of a person for priests is holistic and unique. Respect of freedom of human choice – priority.
That is why there are moments in medicine that the church categorically denies.
For example, the commercialization of health in the country and the world, the attitude towards health, as the product.
– There is a centuries-old practice of respect for medical art, it is considered to be a holy, noble, since this is expressed by love for God and neighbor. Doctors and their methods are healing means in the hands of God. We urge medicine to be guided by moral values, "the priest believes.
The church categorically denies abortion. Responsibility for decisions, according to the clergy, lies both on the mother, on the father and the doctor. The church encourages the state to recognize the right of medical professionals to refuse abortion for conscience reasons.
Representatives of the Orthodox Church oppose the presumption of Lasia's SOC on the transplantation of human organs and tissues, which is enshrined in the legislation of a number of countries. The church considers it an invalid violation of the will of the person.
– Transplantation of living donor organs can be based only on voluntary self-sacrifice. For the sake of salvation of the life of another person. In this case, consent to transplantation becomes a manifestation of love and compassion. A man's donation or testament cannot be considered a person's duty, the voluntary lifetime agreement of the donor is necessary. This condition for legitimacy and moral admissibility for exploitation, "considers the cleric of the Znamensky temple by the Ieria Tarasasi Bigzenets.
The combination of contradictions and disputes that exist between official medicine and the Orthodox Church are problems in the field of bioethics.
The church protests against any paths of childbearing, which contradict natural. If the family is fruitless, you can adopt a child.
Surrogate motherhood condemned by the Church, all manipulations associated with the donation of sex cells, as they violate the integrity of the personality and the exclusivity of the marriage relationship, allow the invasion of the third party. This encourages irresponsible paternity and motherhood, undermines the foundations of a family relationship.
The successes of scientists in genetics, the clergymen urge to apply only to healing diseases.
– The purpose of genetic intervention should not be artificially improving the human race, this is the invasion of God's plans. There may be unpredictable consequences, mutations, destabilization of equilibrium in the universe. Gene therapy can be applied only with the consent of man or its legal representatives, exclusively for medical reasons, is such an irreconcilable position of representatives of Orthodoxy.
The church fears that deciphering the genetic code and the creation of a human genetic passport will create prerequisites for broad genetic testing, in order to identify information on the natural uniqueness of each person. For religious figures, the real risk of abuse of genetic information, which can serve as various forms of discrimination are obvious.
Disagreements and disputes between official medicine and clergy will continue, but …
Philosopher, Theologian, Professor Clicks of the Znamensky Temple, Ieria Tarasas, Bigzenets considers:
– We are still more allies. For many years now we are actively interacting with the district clinical hospital in Khanty-Mansiysk. In the walls of the medical institution, the Orthodox chapel in honor of the Prescripts of the Great Princess Elizabeth and Inokini Varvars are open to patients, their relatives and medical institutions. Akathists are read here, prayers serve, including those who want to have children and pregnant women, there are conversations, showing films about the sacraments of the Church, Orthodoxy. Also carried out the communion of the Holy Tynents and the baptism rite.A sisterhood is organized in the medical institution. Sisters of Mercy visit patients in almost all departments of the hospital, prepare patients for Confession, Communion, and Baptism. Good relations have already been built!
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