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Let us appreciate Paul Ramsey for who he was: a generous but rigorous critic who tenaciously introduced the best of Judeo-Christian tradition, the theme of covenant faithfulness, into contemporary moral reflection on the practice of medicine and research. Like you and I he was a product of his time, subject to the boundaries of his context. But he modeled a remarkable openness, he pushed for an ever-widening circle of conversation and argument, and he was humble enough to change his mind and to tell us exactly why he did so. Contemporary social critics may speak of a proceduralism in which interpretation submits to actual discourse. Paul Ramsey lived it.
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Vaux, K.L., Stenberg, M. (2002). Discerning Stewardship. In: Vaux, K.L., Vaux, S., Stenberg, M. (eds) Covenants of Life. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9898-9_3
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