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The Gonzaga University Faith and Reason Institute will sponsor a lecture by eminent bioethicist Dr. Tristan Engelhardt, Jr. on the topic, “Why Christian Theology Is So Different” this week.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 11 in the Wolff Auditorium (Room 114) of the Jepson Center for the School of Business Administration.

Engelhardt, a physician, is also a philosophy professor at Rice University and a professor emeritus at the Baylor College of Medicine. He fields of specialty are the history and philosophy of medicine, and continental philosophy. His publications include “Mind-Body: A Categorical Relation” (Nijhoff, 1973); “Bioethics and Secular Humanism” (Trinity, 1991); and “The Foundations of Bioethics” (Oxford, 1986; rev. ed. 1996); “The Foundations of Christian Bioethics” (Taylor & Francis, 2000); and “Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus,” (edited volume) (Scrivener, 2006).

Engelhardt’s current research includes explanatory models in medicine, the development of modern concepts of health and disease, and rights and responsibilities in health care.

For more information, please contact Margaret Rankin, program coordinator for the Faith and Reason Institute, at (509) 981-1464 or via e-mail.