The push by some bioethicists to excise religion from the clinical ethics consultative process has received institutional support from the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH). Their certification program, Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C), is intended to identify and assess “a national standard for the professional practice of clinical healthcare ethics consulting” devoid of religious content. As Christian ethicists who wish to preserve the morally evaluative nature of healthcare ethics, we must pause and theologically reflect on the meaning of such a program. The five articles in this issue offer rich theological responses to the religion-free standardized methodology endorsed by the ASBH and reified in the HEC-C certification program. They offer a depth of theological reflection we see previously lacking in the literature, attending to the real possibilities of a “terraformed bioethics” effecting metaphysical harm, severing of clinical ethics from its sources, eliminating possibilities for conversion, and confusing the meaning of moral expertise.

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客座编辑特刊“临床伦理咨询方法和能力中的（Ir）宗教”简介

一些生物伦理学家推动将宗教从临床伦理咨询过程中剔除，这得到了美国生物伦理与人文学会 (ASBH) 的机构支持。他们的认证计划，医疗伦理顾问认证 (HEC-C)，旨在识别和评估“临床医疗伦理咨询专业实践的国家标准”，没有宗教内容。作为希望保留医疗伦理道德评估性质的基督教伦理学家，我们必须停下来，从神学上反思这样一个项目的意义。本期的五篇文章对 ASBH 认可并在 HEC-C 认证计划中具体化的无宗教标准化方法提供了丰富的神学回应。