Gilbert Meilaender is the Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. In addition to serving as an editor for the Journal of Religious Ethics and the Religious Studies Review, he is serving as a member of the President's Bioethics Council. He is the author of Body, Soul and Bioethics; Bioethics: A Primer for Christians; and The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. His book Love Taking Shape: Sermons on the Christian Life, published by Eerdmans in June 2002, is a collection of sermons that reflect on love as a way of life. Click here for a brief description of the work.
 Essays by Gilbert Meilaender have been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthologies "The Ethics of Human Cloning" and "Place, Community, and Memory." Meilaender is also published on the Anthology, "The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis." Short descriptions of the Anthologies are available here. In addition, MARS HILL AUDIO has recorded two of Meilander's books, Bioethics: A Primer for Christians and Letters to Ellen. Descriptions are listed here.
Additional information about Gilbert Meilaender is available through the web pages of ISI Books.
"The First of Institutions"As headlines from both coasts indicate, there is increasing argument about the morality of homosexuality and about the proper response to social and ecclesiastical demands by homosexual rights activists. In an insightful article called "The First of Institutions" (which is available as a pdf file here), Gilbert Meilaender establishes a framework for the portion of the discussion that focuses on theological ethics. Meilaender writes that conversations about homosexuality should begin with a discussion of marriage and its purposes because marriage is the first of institutions and, as such, has much to say about the nature of sexuality and love. He proceeds to define the purposes of marriage and what they imply about sexuality, and only then moves on to the Bible’s evaluation of homosexual behavior and what others have said about it. He concludes by measuring the latter against the former. "The First of Institutions" was published originally in Pro Ecclesia, Volume VI, Number 4. [Posted April 2004, ALG]
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Gilbert Meilaender, on random kindness (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-100.2.9
Gilbert Meilaender, on the necessity of a concept of human dignity and on why Americans no longer seem able to defend it (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-098.1.3
Gilbert Meilaender, on lessons from Augustine in defining proper expectations for the Christian life (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-085.2.2
Gilbert Meilaender, on ways to think about work (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-052.2.3
Gilbert Meilaender, on C. S. Lewis's self-denying gospel (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-031.2.5
Gilbert Meilaender, on the outlines of a distinctively Christian bioethics (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-025.1.3
Gilbert Meilaender, on "Random Acts of Kindness," cultivating virtue, and the meaning of kindness (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-008.1.2
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