Panel 3: Theological and Religious Perspectives on Conscience
Royal Irish Academy Symposium
Chair:
- Mary McAleese, MRIA, Professor of Children, Law and Religion, University of Glasgow
Panellists:
- Professor Linda Hogan, Trinity College Dublin
- Professor David Albert Jones, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre
- Professor David Novak, University of Toronto
Religious and theological conceptions of conscience; role of conscientious objection within faith traditions; freedom of religion, freedom within religion. Resistance motivated by faith and conscience: military service, health care.
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