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Brian R. Brock, a lecturer in moral and practical theology at the University of Aberdeen, writes and teaches on Christian ethics in biomedicine. He has looked at disability in the light of Scripture and the teachings of St. Augustine and sought to understand how Christian tradition speaks to moral questions of public relevance in an era of rapidly advancing technology. Dr. Brock came to theology through science, studying biology as an undergraduate at Colorado Christian University and earning a master’s degree in biomedical and Christian ethics at Loma Linda University. He earned a diploma in theology at Oxford University in 1997 and took his D.Phil. in Christian ethics at King’s College, London, in 2003. After a term as a visiting scholar in the theological faculty of Friedrich Alexander Universität, he accepted his present position at Aberdeen. Dr. Brock has given invited lectures in Scotland, England, and Romania. In addition to publishing papers in scholarly journals, he is editing two volumes (with John Swinton), Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church, which will be published later this year by T & T Clark, and the forthcoming Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader. His book, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture, will be published this year by Wm. B. Eerdmans. Another book, Discovering Our Dwelling: Technological Development and Christian Moral Reasoning, is in preparation for Oxford University Press.