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THE LIFE NOT YET SEEN: Unborn Life, Abortion, and the Truth of the Human Person Before God

  • 132 pages
  • Publisher: Joseph Mboya Okello
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm

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For readers engaging with complex life issues

Explains the sanctity of life without hostility

Equips you to show God's mercy in a wounded world

A grave and compassionate reflection on the sanctity of unborn life and the moral responsibility of the world before God.

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There is a life present before the world has welcomed it.

THE LIFE NOT YET SEEN: Unborn Life, Abortion, and the Truth of the Human Person Before God is a grave Christian moral-philosophical examination of unborn life, abortion, and the truth of the human person before God. It does not begin with political slogan, legal abstraction, public anger, or sentimental appeal. It begins with the hidden life: unseen by the world, unable to speak, unable to defend itself, yet not hidden from God.

This book asks whether a life can be morally dismissed because it has not yet entered public sight. It examines what happens when language renames life, power acts over the defenseless, law excludes the child, medicine is asked to carry moral questions it cannot finally settle, civilization normalizes death, and mercy is tempted to become falsehood.

Written under Life Under Truth Before God, and within the diagnostic frame also named False Arrival Theory, this work does not treat the unborn child as the examined moral actor. The examined moral field is the already-born world: fathers, mothers, families, churches, institutions, law, medicine, society, conscience, and civilization before Truth.

The argument is severe, but it is not careless. It names abortion gravely while refusing hatred toward wounded persons. It insists that the child must be seen, the mother must not be hated, the father must not be excused, medicine must not hide behind procedure, law must not be treated as final, and the church must not speak as though proclamation alone is enough where support, repentance, care, protection, and repair are required.

Across six movements, the book considers the unborn child and the question of truth; abortion and the crisis of moral language; the already-born world and power over the defenseless; law, civilization, and the normalization of death; unborn life before God; and the difficult movement from truth toward mercy, responsibility, and repair.

This is not light inspirational reading. It is a solemn work of Christian structural-moral reflection: a tribute to the life not yet seen, a summons to truthful mercy, and an examination of the world that acts before the child can answer.

The argument is grave because life is grave. It is restrained because the wounded must not be crushed. It is God-facing because human life cannot finally be measured by visibility, usefulness, legality, fear, convenience, or public recognition.

THE LIFE NOT YET SEEN: Unborn Life, Abortion, and the Truth of the Human Person Before God and ORDERED LIFE: From Incoherence to the Threshold of Ultimacy
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  • Title

    THE LIFE NOT YET SEEN: Unborn Life, Abortion, and the Truth of the Human Person Before God

  • Author

    Joseph Mboya Okello

  • Publisher

    Joseph Mboya Okello

  • Published

    June 2026

  • Weight

    191g

  • Page Count

    132

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9789914932775

  • ISBN-10

    9914932770

  • Eden Code

    7587189