Professor Robert Song's Outputs (31)

Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study (2023)
Journal Article
Poole, R., Cook, C. C. H., Song, R., & Robinson, C. A. (2023). Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study. BJPsych Bulletin, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.66

Aims and method
Calls for the integration of spirituality into psychiatric practice have raised concerns about boundary violations. We sought to develop a method to capture psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries and spirituality, explor... Read More about Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study.

Desiring machines: The sexbot paradox (2020)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2020). Desiring machines: The sexbot paradox. In S. A. Midson (Ed.), Love, Technology and Theology (77-92). T&T Clark. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567689979.ch-005

Against Agonistic Liberalism: Milbank and Pabst's Relentless Pursuit of Radical Anglican Thomism (2019)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2019). Against Agonistic Liberalism: Milbank and Pabst's Relentless Pursuit of Radical Anglican Thomism. Studies in Christian Ethics, 32(2), 271-277. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946819826323

Milbank and Pabst’s account of liberalism as rooted in ontological violence picks out the secret commonalities of left-leaning rights-based and right-leaning market-based liberalisms with considerable shrewdness, and their elaboration of associationi... Read More about Against Agonistic Liberalism: Milbank and Pabst's Relentless Pursuit of Radical Anglican Thomism.

Experiences of Faith Group Members Using New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Qualitative Interview Study (2016)
Journal Article
Scully, J. L., Banks, S., Song, R., & Haq, J. (2017). Experiences of Faith Group Members Using New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Qualitative Interview Study. Human Fertility, 20(1), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647273.2016.1243816

This paper explores the experiences of members of faith groups deciding whether or not to use new reproductive or genetic technologies (NRGTs). It is based on 16 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with people with direct experience of NRGTs. Partic... Read More about Experiences of Faith Group Members Using New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Qualitative Interview Study.

‘Technological Immortalization and Original Mortality: Karl Barth on the Celebration of Finitude’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2016). ‘Technological Immortalization and Original Mortality: Karl Barth on the Celebration of Finitude’. In P. Ziegler (Ed.), Eternal God, Eternal Life: Theological Investigations into the Concept of Immortality (187-209). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567666864.ch-010

Play It Again, but This Time with Ontological Conviction: A Response to Jonathan Marks (2016)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2016). Play It Again, but This Time with Ontological Conviction: A Response to Jonathan Marks. Philosophy, theology and the sciences (Internet), 3(2), 175-182. https://doi.org/10.1628/219597716x14696202742136

The Authority of the Gospel: Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan (2015)
Book
Song, R., & Waters, B. (Eds.). (2015). The Authority of the Gospel: Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan. Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Song, R., & Waters, B. (2015). Introduction. In R. Song, & B. Waters (Eds.), The Authority of the Gospel: Essays in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan (xi-xxi). Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans

Covenant and Calling: Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Relationships (2014)
Book
Song, R. (2014). Covenant and Calling: Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Relationships. SCM Press

Gender and Career Progression in Theology and Religious Studies (2013)
Report
Guest, M., Sharma, S., & Song, R. (2013). Gender and Career Progression in Theology and Religious Studies. [No known commissioning body]

The low proportion of women within the subject areas of Theology and Religious Studies has long been observed, and is increasingly recognised as a serious problem for staff and students. In this new study, Mathew Guest, Sonya Sharma and Robert Song c... Read More about Gender and Career Progression in Theology and Religious Studies.

Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation (2013)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2013). Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation. Studies in Christian Ethics, 26(4), 487-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946813492921

The rare phenomenon in which a person desires amputation of a healthy limb, now often termed body integrity identity disorder, raises central questions for biomedical ethics. Standard bioethical discussions of surgical intervention in such cases fail... Read More about Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation.

Transgenic Animals and Ethics: Recognizing an Appropriate Dignity (2013)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2013). Transgenic Animals and Ethics: Recognizing an Appropriate Dignity. In C. Deane-Drummond, D. Clough, & R. Artinian-Kaiser (Eds.), Animals as religious subjects : transdisciplinary perspectives (243-258). T & T Clark

Bonhoeffer and the Biotechnological Imagination. (2010)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2010). Bonhoeffer and the Biotechnological Imagination. In R. K. Wüstenberg, S. Heuser, & E. Hornung (Eds.), Bonhoeffer and the Biosciences: An Initial Exploration (75-87). Peter Lang

Humanity, Divinity and Interspecies Embryos. (2009)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2009). Humanity, Divinity and Interspecies Embryos. In S. W. Smith, & R. Deazley (Eds.), The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body: Transformation and Transgression (127-141). Ashgate Publishing

A Profile of the Belief System and Attitudes to End-of-Life Decisions of Senior Clinicians Working in a National Health Service Hospital in the United Kingdom. (2009)
Journal Article
Pugh, E., Song, R., Whittaker, V., & Blenkinsopp, J. (2009). A Profile of the Belief System and Attitudes to End-of-Life Decisions of Senior Clinicians Working in a National Health Service Hospital in the United Kingdom. Palliative Medicine, 23(2), 158-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216308100248

The Bible and Human Genetics. (2009)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2009). The Bible and Human Genetics. In M. Bratton (Ed.), God, Ethics and the Human Genome (33-45). Church House Publishing

Conclusion: Fragility and Grace, Theology and Disability’ (2007)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2007). Conclusion: Fragility and Grace, Theology and Disability’. In J. Swinton, & B. Brock (Eds.), Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church (234-44). T&T Clark

Genetic Manipulation and the Body of Christ (2007)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2007). Genetic Manipulation and the Body of Christ. Studies in Christian Ethics, 20(3), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946807082935

Efforts to distinguish therapeutic from non-therapeutic genetic interventions in the human body have floundered on the assumption that the body should be understood as a psycho-physical corpus. This article argues by contrast that the body of Christ,... Read More about Genetic Manipulation and the Body of Christ.

Knowing There Is No God, Still We Should Not Play God? Habermas on the Future of Human Nature (2006)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2006). Knowing There Is No God, Still We Should Not Play God? Habermas on the Future of Human Nature. Ecotheology, 11(2), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.1558/ecot.2006.11.2.191

Christian Bioethics and the Church's Political Worship (2005)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2005). Christian Bioethics and the Church's Political Worship. Christian Bioethics, 11, 333-348

Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, GM Foods and Population Growth (2004)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2004). Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, GM Foods and Population Growth. In S. Hauerwas, & S. W. (eds.) (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics (388-400). Blackwell

The Human Genome Project as Soteriological Project (2003)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2003). The Human Genome Project as Soteriological Project. In C. Deane-Drummond (Ed.), Brave new world? : theology, ethics and the human genome (164-184). T&T Clark

To Be Willing to Kill What for All One Knows Is A Person Is to Be Willing to Kill a Person (2003)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2003). To Be Willing to Kill What for All One Knows Is A Person Is to Be Willing to Kill a Person. In B. Waters, & R. Cole-Turner (Eds.), God and the embryo : religious voices on stem cells and cloning (98-107). Georgetown University Press

Human Genetics : Fabricating the Future (2002)
Book
Song, R. (2002). Human Genetics : Fabricating the Future. Darton, Longman and Todd

A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically: A Dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan (2002)
Book
Bartholomew, C., Chaplin, J., Song, R., & Wolters, A. (Eds.). (2002). A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically: A Dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan. Paternoster Press

Whose Sanctity of Life? Ricoeur, Dworkin and the Human Embryo (2002)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2002). Whose Sanctity of Life? Ricoeur, Dworkin and the Human Embryo. In S. Barton (Ed.), Holiness : past and present (460-476). T&T Clark

Wisdom as the End of Morality (1999)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (1999). Wisdom as the End of Morality. In S. C. Barton (Ed.), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (295-306). T&T Clark

Democratie (1998)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (1998). Democratie. In J. L. (ed.) (Ed.), Dictionnaire Critique de Theologie (308-9). Presses Universitaires de France

Christianity and Liberal Society (1997)
Book
Song, R. (1997). Christianity and Liberal Society. Clarendon Press

‘Moral Theology’ (revision) (1997)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (1997). ‘Moral Theology’ (revision). In E. Livingstone (ed.) (Ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (1110-12). (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press

Political Life (1994)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (1994). Political Life. In C. Y. (ed.) (Ed.), Veritatis Splendor: An Anglican Response (57-68). Canterbury Press