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The Orthodox Christian and the Boundaries of Contemporary Medical Technology

by Archimandrite Akakios

26 pp.
$3.95


Father Akakios offers a valuable overview of the problems associated with organ donations and transplants. For Orthodox Christians, the heart is far more than a physical organ; it is, indeed, the spiritual center of the human person, and cannot be transplanted from one person to another without grave consequences for the soul of the recipient.


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The Very Reverend Akakios, Abbot of the St. Gregory Palamas Monastery, received his doctoral degree in advanced pastoral studies at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.