About the book: year / Protopresbyter John Breck (Orthodox Church in America) is a famous theologian and bioethicist, chairman of the Orthodox Church in America Commission on Medical Ethics. In 1984–1996 - Professor of New Testament Theology and Ethics at St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, New York, from 1995 - Professor of Biblical Theology and Ethics at St. Sergius Theological Institute in Paris, President of the Orthodox Association for Bioethical Research (Paris), director of the rest home for priests named after St. Silouana in South Carolina (USA), lecturer, author of several books and numerous articles. The proposed book is not only relevant, but also extremely interesting. For the first time in our country, a book is being published devoted to the problems of bioethics, written at such a high theological and scientific level. Father John gives well-grounded, balanced answers to questions that concern many modern Christians and responsible people: why the Church blesses only two-sex marriage; what modern artificial insemination technologies may be ethically acceptable; how to relate to the problem of cloning life and the possible “invasion” of human genes in order to correct various hereditary diseases; why the Church unequivocally rejects abortion and euthanasia, but at the same time believes that artificially maintaining the life of a hopeless, doomed patient is not always good. In his work, the author emphasizes that for Christians, ethics is not the area of ​​ready-made and unambiguous answers, not the area only only moral laws and prohibitions, but the area of ​​life, the area in which communion with God and deification becomes possible for a Christian (see 2 Pet. 2:4) is the true calling and purpose of man. That is why the book is based on the biblical principle of the “sacredness of life”, expressed in the commandment: “Choose life!” The book is intended for a wide range of readers.