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Gilbert Meilaender
In Christian Ethics: A Short Companion, renowned ethicist Gilbert Meilaender makes the case that all Christian ethics are an outworking of this command to love one another.
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In the essays collected here Gilbert Meilaender invites readers to reflect upon some of the bioethical issues that are important for all of us. The essays treat bioethics less as…
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Reflecting upon some problems of the moral life, Gilbert Meilaender considers their difficulties within a vision that accentuates not only the limits, but also the promise, of the Christian story…
A deeply meditated study of C.S. Lewis as a social philosopher. It does him good service. Avoiding unnecesaary biographical data, Meilaender concentrates rigoursly on Lewis’ writings in an attempt to…
Presents six essays exploring subjects that have plagued society for centuries: duty, desire, politics, sex and grief. This work offers insights on difficult topics such as lying, contraception, food, and…
In Should We Live Forever? Christian ethicist Gilbert Meilaender puzzles over the implications of the medical advances that have lengthened the human life span, wrestling with what this quest for…
A leading Christian ethicist places the Ten Commandments in the larger and richer context of the biblical history of redemption and invites readers to wrestle with how human loves should…
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Appeals to human dignity are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even…
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The fourth edition of a compact textbook that addresses the most important issues in the field of bioethics from a Christian perspective –
What are the practical and theoretical issues that concern and shape theological ethics? Written by an international group of thirty scholars, this guide to the discipline is designed as a…
Gilbert C. Meilaender
Drawing from such diverse sources as E.B. White, Alasdair MacIntyre, Augustine and Bambi , this work focuses on the particular shape of the Christian life as it pertains to the…
Proposes different ways of thinking about work. As part of the Ethics of Everyday Life series, these readings are an invitation to reflection and conversation.
Gilbert C. Meilaender examines how the field of bioethics has developed over the last quarter century and reconsiders some of its central concepts and arguments. It is Meilaender’s specific aim…
Certain relationships are of profound importance for the moral life. Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tensions which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, the bond of friendship.
Many students of philosophical and theological ethics have recently experienced a renewed interest in what may be called an ethic of virtue. Such an ethic focuses less on the concept…
Meilander examines the relation between forming families through adoption and natural descent, explained through New Testament ideas of becoming a follower of Jesus through adoption.
What does it mean when we speak of human dignity? What challenges does human dignity confront in our culture today? What is the relationship between contemporary understandings of human dignity…
The first book of its kind, Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today’s most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should…
Gregory E. Pence
Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today’s most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should allow human cloning. It includes historical…
Foreword by Jean Bethke Elshtain This important book is sure to foster informed public discussion about the death penalty by deepening readers’ understanding of how religious beliefs and perspectives shape…
