Abstract
This essay begins by attending to the positions of two Protestant theologians concerning persons and their embodiment. Each represents his position as an interpretation of Christian scripture and tradition. In order to test such representations the central section of this essay examines the Biblical tradition itself. Because reading scripture is for Christian communities not simply an academic enterprise but an ecclesial practice, the tone of that section is deliberately as “homiletical” as “scholarly.” The essay does not attempt to explain or defend the practice of reading scripture as important for the formation and reformation of the moral life, but it does attempt to display it.1 The final section returns to the two Protestant theologians with whom the essay began, draws the conclusion that one of the two positions is more faithful to scripture than the other, echoes a call for “an energetic revision of [the church’s] anthropology in the light of its eschatology” ([1], p. 390), and suggests something of the relevance of such a revision to medical ethics.
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