The problem of the relationship between bioethics and faith is complex when it concerns the Christian religion. It begins at the level of the relationship between philosophy and Christian philosophy and, more precisely, with the contentious question of whether philosophy can have a Christian character. In the light of methodological principles, (natural) philosophy seems to exclude religious motives a priori. A similar problem can be observed in the field of ethics. In the proper sense, it is a philosophical science (as stated in the definitions of bioethics above). If so, ethics is, in its mistaken sense, a form of moral theology, as in the so-called 'Theological Ethics', the field of study of some authors.
