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Gilbert Meilaender

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#3234

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#5274

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#1046

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Bioethics

#46

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#46

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#19

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Logic

#8925

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#11239

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#1517

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PhD Religion Princeton University
Masters Religion Princeton University
Bachelors Philosophy Concordia Senior College

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According to Wikipedia, Gilbert Meilaender is a prominent American Lutheran bioethicist and theologian. He is Senior Research Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University, and served on the President's Council on Bioethics from its founding in 2002 until its dissolution in 2009.

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Gilbert Meilaender's Published Works

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The Theory and Practice of Virtue (1984) (93)
Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (1996) (50)
On removing food and water: against the stream. (1984) (49)
Feeding and hydrating the permanently unconscious and other vulnerable persons. (1987) (40)
Case Studies: The Anencephalic Newborn as Organ Donor (1986) (38)
The point of a ban. Or, how to think about stem cell research. (2001) (38)
Body, Soul, and Bioethics (1998) (37)
Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics (1981) (30)
Terra es animata on having a life. (1993) (21)
Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate (2012) (21)
The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C.S. Lewis (1978) (20)
Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits (2001) (15)
The Limits of Love: Some Theological Explorations (1990) (14)
On moral knowledge (2010) (14)
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics (2007) (12)
Sweet Necessities: Food, Sex, and Saint Augustine (2001) (12)
Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics (1991) (10)
Comforting when we cannot heal: the ethics of palliative sedation (2018) (10)
Gifts of the body. (2006) (10)
Begetting and cloning. (1997) (9)
Designing our descendants. (2001) (8)
Working : its meaning and its limits (2000) (7)
Contraception: a symposium. (1998) (7)
Our vocabularies, our selves. (1994) (6)
Eritis Sicut Deus: Moral Theory and the Sin of Pride (1986) (6)
On William F. May. Corrected vision for medical ethics. (1989) (5)
Abortion: the right to an argument. (1989) (5)
The sanctity of life seduced: a symposium on medical ethics. (1994) (5)
Bioethics and the character of human life. (2003) (5)
Second thoughts about body parts. (1996) (5)
The Pandemic: Lessons for Bioethics? (2020) (4)
Ethics & life's ending: an exchange. (2004) (4)
Products of the will: Robertson's Children of Choice. (1995) (4)
Mastering our gen(i)es: when do we say no? (1990) (4)
The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life (2006) (4)
The Distinction between Killing and Allowing to Die (1976) (4)
Less law? Or different law? (1996) (4)
The Point of a Ban (2001) (3)
No to infant euthanasia. (2015) (3)
Euthanasia & Christian Vision (1982) (3)
Honoring the Bios in Lutheran Bioethics (2004) (3)
"Love's casuistry": Paul Ramsey on caring for the terminally ill. (1991) (3)
Josef Pieper: Explorations in the Thought of a Philosopher of Virtue (1983) (3)
Human equality and assistance in suicide. (1994) (2)
The still forbidden fruit. (1977) (2)
The confused, the voiceless, the perverse: shall we give them food and drink. (1986) (2)
TIME FOR LOVE: The Place of Marriage and Children in the Thought of Stanley Hauerwas (2012) (2)
The End of Sex: Finis or Telos? (2019) (2)
A Feminist Medical Ethics (1993) (2)
Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption (2016) (2)
Paul Ramsey Remembered (2018) (2)
Euthanasia and Christian vision. (1982) (2)
If this baby could choose. (1982) (2)
Revisiting the Cloning Debate (2003) (2)
Christian thinking about advance medical directives. (1996) (2)
Living life's end. (2005) (2)
Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatments: When Does Quality of Life Count? (1997) (2)
Against Consensus: Christians and Public Bioethics (2005) (2)
Hearts Set to Obey (2004) (2)
C. S. Lewis: The Recent Literature (2017) (1)
The First of Institutions (1997) (1)
New reproductive technologies: Protestant modes of thought. (1992) (1)
Can hospitals have moral objections? (1987) (1)
Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics (2012) (1)
The Perils of Progress (2012) (1)
Freedom for the Command of God: Thinking with Johannes (2000) (1)
Love as a Virtue (2015) (1)
"A Little Monarchy": Hobbes on the Family (1978) (1)
Morality in Plague Time: AIDS in Theological Perspective; Lecture 1: Sickness and Sin (1988) (1)
Birth and Breeding Chapter 3, from 'Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person' 2009, Encounter Books (2010) (1)
Human equality and assistance in suicide. (1994) (1)
Book Review: Jennifer A. Herdt, Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008). xi + 454 pp. US$55/£32.50 (hb), ISBN 978-0-226-32724-2 (2010) (1)
Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life (2002) (1)
Cloning in Protestant perspective. (1998) (1)
Not by Nature but by Grace (2016) (1)
Christian Theology: Ethics (2011) (1)
Robert Paul Ramsey (1997) (0)
THE ETHICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE (2020) (0)
The L uce lectures on Religion and the Social Crisis -- Morality in Plague Time: AIDS in Theolog ical Perspective -- Lecture 3: Virtues - Protecting the (1988) (0)
Moral Knowledge: The Limits of Redeemed Vision (2008) (0)
Divine Grace and Ethics (2007) (0)
Therapeutic cloning. (2002) (0)
The fetus as parasite and mushroom: Judith Jarvis Thomson's defense of abortion. (1979) (0)
Obituary: Richard John Neuhaus (1936—2009) (2009) (0)
The Decalogue as the Law of Christ (2018) (0)
The Human Being in Full. (2018) (0)
Christian Faith for Handing On (2015) (0)
The Ethics of Everyday Life by Michael Banner (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), xiii + 223 pp. (2016) (0)
Stem cells and the Reagan legacy. (2004) (0)
The Ethics of Teaching Ethics: An Introduction (1989) (0)
An Ecumenism of Time (2014) (0)
Against abortion: a Protestant proposal. (1978) (0)
UNDERSTANDING THE APATHETIC CITIZEN (1978) (0)
Selling Out (1999) (0)
Morality in Plague Time: AIDS in Theological Perspective Lecture 3: Virtues — Protecting the Healthy (1988) (0)
The Drive to Have a Child "Like Me" (1998) (0)
“The Things Relevant to Mortal Life”: Divorcing Augustine from Rawls (1997) (0)
Touched by the Eternal (1994) (0)
Friendly Rejoinders (2017) (0)
Book Review:Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis L. Gregory Jones (1997) (0)
Affirming ourselves to death. (1998) (0)
Critical Theory of the Family (1979) (0)
March Madness? Just Say No. (2016) (0)
Doctor Death the right to die. (1992) (0)
The First of Institutions ” from Pro Ecclesia (2004) (0)
Morality in Plague Time: AIDS in Theological Perspective Lecture 2: Obligations — Caring for the Sick (1988) (0)
Book Reviews : Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics, by Lisa Sowle Cahill. Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii + 327 pp. hb. £32.50, pb. £11.95. ISBN 0-521-57848-5 (1998) (0)
Dialogue in dialog: Are same sex unions marriages? (2001) (0)
"On the Way": Reflections on Politics and Passion (2006) (0)
Virtue for Self-Possessed Individuals (1986) (0)
Choose Life (2002) (0)
Reconciling Rights & Responsibilities (1994) (0)
Engaging the Mind of Elshtain on Sovereignty (2018) (0)
Abortion and the maternal-fetal medicine physician. (1995) (0)
Arguments Against President Obama's Stem Cell Policies (2009) (0)
Bioethics in an Old Key (2002) (0)
Abortion and the Roman Catholic Church: Journal of Religious Ethics Studies in Religious Ethics II (1979) (0)
The Virtues: A Theological Analysis (1985) (0)
The Gifts of the Body: Organ Procurement for Transplantation (2010) (0)
Natural Morality or Splendid Vice? The Case of Paul Ramsey (2020) (0)
“eschatology in the Political Theory of Michael Walzer” by Alan Revering (2005) (0)
Book Review: Helen Oppenheimer, Christian Faith for Handing On (2015) (0)
Comforting when we cannot heal: the ethics of palliative sedation (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, by Michael Banner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 325 pp. hb. £37.50. ISBN 0-521-62382-0. pb. £13.95. ISBN 0-521-62554-8 (2001) (0)

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