Kowald, Tim2019-09-252019-09-252015-01-212005-02http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/216940"Ours is indeed a time of tremendous medical progress, especially as regards genetic medicine. It is a time in which much is being glimpsed and promised by researchers, and a time society looks eagerly to the ongoing development of diagnostic tools and genetic therapies for overcoming the most feared illnesses. It seems only right to bring hope and healing to countless lives through taking up the new scientific powers with a passion. Is not this too what is to be understood by Christians in hearing that God commands, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over [creation]'?"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderhuman cloninghuman lifereproductive cloningtherapeutic cloninggenetic therapiesadult stem cell researchLutheran Church of AustraliaReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsPhilosophical ethicsBioethicsMedical ethicsHealth ethicsChristian denominationsLutheranDogmaticsThe human beingPractical theology and theological educationTraining of church leadersMinisterial and pastoral trainingLay FormationPreprint