Looks at how Christian beliefs about the sanctity of life should influence modern medical ethics

Product Description: What is Christian freedom, and how does it apply to such issues as vocation and biotechnology? Here Lutheran theologian and ethicist Gilbert Meilaender tackles these questions and others, such as the importance of memory and the role of suffering in our lives...read more

Product Description: Foreword by Jean Bethke ElshtainThis important book is sure to foster informed public discussion about the death penalty by deepening readers' understanding of how religious beliefs and perspectives shape thiscontentious issue. Featuring a fair, balanced appraisal of its topic, Religion and the Death Penalty brings thoughtful religious reflection to bear on current challenges facing thecapital justice system...read more

Product Description: "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 'get at the heart of [his] vision of human community and his understanding of morality' ...read more

A collection of engaging and reflective sermons on the central Christian virtue of love is uniquely sensitive to the daily needs of individuals desiring to live faithfully in today's difficult world, focusing on the crucial role of love in fostering inner renewal, care for others, and personal longing for God. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Now with a new preface by the author, this a cclaimed book provides a unified introduction to C.S. Lewis'' social and ethical views. ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sound yet gentle moral instruction for today's young adults is woven throughout this wonderful collection of twenty-four imaginary and imaginative letters from a mother to her daughter in college.

Gilbert Meilaender here offers reflections on the moral life from within the life of faith. Drawing on such diverse sources as E.B. White, Alasdair MacIntyre, Augustine and Felix Salten, the author of "Bambi", Meilaender focuses on the particular shape of the Christian life as it pertains to the commitments of believers and to the way in which those commitments form moral vision. Beginning with Christianity as a particular way of life, Meilaender suggests that Christians should not try to develop an autonomous ethic; neither, however, need they deny the common ground that exists with those who stand in other traditions. He then discusses human nature as creaturely, sinful and justified - using these categories to think about such topics as the relation of humans to their environment, the meaning of personhood, the meaning of original sin, and the relation of indicative and imperative in the Christian life. Meilaender argues that a particular kind of moral theory, one that is non-consequentialist, is appropriate for those working within the Christian tradition. In a chapter on the relation of Church and society he argues for the necessity of the Church's works of both mercy and witness. In a chapter on mortality Meilaender considers the sense in which - for Christians - death is both natural and unnatural, and he explores some of the implications for both public policy and personal life of such a view. Finally, Meilaender uses the story told by St. Augustine in his "Confessions" reading it - over against Rousseau's "Confessions" - as a narrative embodiment of the Christian ethic.

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Product Description: Certain relationships are of profound importance for human life and of great significance for the moral life. In Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics, Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tension which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, that of the bond of friendship...read more