Gilbert Meilaender

Author of Bioethics: A Primer for Christians

About the Author

Gilbert Meilaender is senior research professor at Valparaiso University. He served on the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009. His other books include Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person and The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life.

Includes the names: Gilbert Meilander, Gilbert C. Meilaender, Gilbert C. Meilaender, Gilbert C Meilaender Jr., Gilbert C. Meilaender, JR.

Works by Gilbert Meilaender

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Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (1997) 486 copies, 2 reviews

The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis (1978) 154 copies

Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics: Philosophy (REVISIONS) (1981) 67 copies

The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life (2006) 64 copies

Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits (The Ethics of Everyday Life) (2000) 61 copies

Theory and Practice Of Virtue (ND Series in Great B) (1984) 60 copies

Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics (1991) 58 copies, 1 review

Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person (Encounter Broadsides) (2009) 42 copies

Things That Count: Essays Moral and Theological (2000) 41 copies

The Freedom of a Christian: Grace, Vocation, and the Meaning of Our Humanity (2006) 39 copies

Should We Live Forever?: The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging (2013) 38 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics (2005) — Editor — 36 copies, 1 review

The Limits of Love: Some Theological Explorations (1990) 30 copies

Thy Will Be Done: The Ten Commandments and the Christian Life (2020) 30 copies, 1 review

Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life (2002) 23 copies, 1 review

Body, Soul, and Bioethics (1996) 18 copies

Letters to Ellen (1996) 14 copies, 1 review

Christian Ethics: A Short Companion (Essentials in Christian Ethics) (2024) 13 copies

Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) (2016) 12 copies

Morality in Plague Time: AIDS in Theological Perspective (1989) 11 copies

Bioethics and the Character of Human Life: Essays and Reflections (2020) 4 copies

Meditations on Christ's Words from the Cross (2015) 2 copies

A Complete Life: First Things Reprint Series (Volume 5) (2012) 2 copies

Ethics and Exegesis: A Great Gulf? 1 copy

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A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically: A Dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, V. 3) (2002) — Contributor — 145 copies

The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (2010) — Contributor — 105 copies, 1 review

The Blackwell Companion to Paul (2011) — Contributor — 28 copies

The Nine Lives of Population Control (1995) — Contributor — 26 copies

On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (2012) — Contributor, some editions — 22 copies, 1 review

The Art of Staying Together (New Consciousness Reader) (1998) — Contributor — 18 copies

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Birthdate: 1946
Gender: male
Education: Princeton University (PhD)
Concordia Seminary (MDiv)
Concordia Senior College (BA)
Occupations: professor
Christian ethicist
Organizations: Valparaiso University
Oberlin College
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
Associated Place (for map): Indiana, USA

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RichardMyerscough 56 reviews

Thy Will Be Done: The Ten Commandments and the Christian Life by Gilbert Meilaender

This short book is a wonderful read, engaging and thoughtful, worth lingering over and returning to. Meilaender never wastes words but chooses and deploys them wisely and sensitively.

Apr 12, 2025

ajgoddard 141 reviews

Faith and faithfulness : basic themes in Christian ethics by Gilbert C. Meilaender

A good introduction to Christian ethics from a theological perspective offering an understanding of what it means to be human and how that relates to a number of different areas.

Jun 5, 2020

ajgoddard 141 reviews

Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life by Gilbert Meilaender

Simple but stimulating and instructive sermons on Romans 6, Decalogue, Sermon on the Mount and love from leading Protestant ethicist

Jun 5, 2020

ajgoddard 141 reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender

An excellent collection of articles on a range of subjects in theological ethics: dogmatics and ethics, sources of moral knowledge, structure of the Christian life, spirit of the Christian life, spheres of the Christian life, books that give shape to the field.

May 24, 2020

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