Annunciation and the Nihilism of Prenatal Testing

Kimbell Kornu offers a thoughtful elaboration of the counterintuitive claim first popularized by Jeffery Bishop—that contemporary medical practice is practically organized around the transcendental absolute of death. He elaborates how this metaphysic is well described by Heidegger even though Heidegger’s own account also finally collapses into a death-fixation. Kornu supplies a theological corrective by appeal … Continue reading Annunciation and the Nihilism of Prenatal Testing