Gilbert Meilaender
Biographic Data
| ID | 1503167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert Meilaender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Meilaender |
| SIGNATURE | MEILAENDER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valparaiso University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Natural Morality or Splendid Vice? The Case of Paul Ramsey
In Basic Christian Ethics, first published in 1950, Paul Ramsey began a decades-long attempt to relate Christian love to natural morality. As his work focused increasingly on particular moral problems, critics suggested that he had altered the position staked out in his first book and should consider writing a new or revised version of it. This article traces Ramsey’s continuing examination of the relation between justice and love, and it suggest…
The Pandemic
Seeking useful ways to respond to the Covid‐19 pandemic, bioethicists have been tempted to claim for themselves what Alasdair MacIntyre characterized in After Virtue as the moral fiction of managerial expertise. They have been eager to offer a wide range of policy prescriptions, presenting themselves as bureaucratic managers and suggesting an expertise that bioethics may not in fact be able to offer. This was evident, for example, in the petition…
The Human Being in Full
Anyone who has paid attention to the work of Leon Kass over the years is likely to have read earlier versions of many of the essays collected in Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times. Even so, they will repay repeated readings, if only because they are evidence that one who has spent his life in the academy can write prose that is clear, readable, and often arresting. Moreover, the essays, taken as a whole, exemplify nicely, as K…
The Perils of Progress
In Contested Reproduction, John Evans outlines the results of a major piece of sociological research he has conducted. Evans suspects that reproductive genetic technologies will be a significant issue in coming cultural conflicts in the United States and that religious perspectives will play an important role in determining the shape these conflicts take. If one believes that we are hopelessly and bitterly divided on such issues, then the shape o…
Time for Love
In essays written throughout his career, Stanley Hauerwas has unfolded a Christian vision of the marriage bond and the presence of children that seeks insistently to place these seemingly natural bonds within the new family of God that is the church. I examine his understanding, aiming to appreciate the Christian vision displayed while also suggesting that his emphasis on the new thing God does in the church is sometimes allowed to absorb and the…
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics offers an authoritative and compelling guide to this discipline. Thirty of the world's most distinguished specialists provide new articles in order to offer a survey of and analysis of the subject. Ethics is first placed firmly within the Christian theological tradition, from which thought and action can never be neatly separated. Four sections then explore the sources of Christian moral knowledge (script…
Faith
This article asks: how specifically do features of God's keeping faith and features of our keeping faith differ and correspond? That is, how do we get their interplay right? It analyzes four claims about faith: faith is based on God's actions ad extra, faith is based on a distinction between creator and creature, faith disallows ‘tempting God’, and faith disallows ‘playing God
On the Way
In Passion and Politics Michael Walzer explores two problems of liberal democratic theory: its refusal to acknowledge the place of passion in politics, and its difficulty in making place for involuntary associations (especially illiberal ones) that shape the character of citizens. Against a background of appreciation for his concerns and arguments, I ask whether his account of involuntary associations is sufficiently complicated or sufficiently r…
The Oxford handbook of theological ethics
The Point of a Ban
troop transport. We sailed alone and in secrecy. We were equipped with winter gear and so were shocked when we landed in Hawaii. There we exchanged for tropical gear and were assigned to Pacific Island bases. It was only later we realized we had been scheduled for an ultimate invasion of North Japan. Had that taken place, thousands of us and thousands of Japanese would have been killed, and likely I would not be writing this letter. So, I, too, a…
The Point of a Ban
Or, How to Think about Stem Cell Research We might be convinced that goal of relieving suffering offers a straightforward justification of sacrificing embryos in research. Or we might hold that although embryos merit our greater good to be achieved by destroying them, more respect must give way to research. Or, if we take notion of respect seriously, we might find that relieving suffering is a real but not supreme imperative. its report Ethical I…
Stem Cell Research
The Author Replies
Sweet Necessities
Central to Augustine's understanding of rightly ordered sexuality is his belief that the pleasure of the act should not be separated from its good (procreation). It is useful to observe that he reasons in a similar way about eating: that the pleasure of eating should not be separated from its good (nourishment). Inadequacies in his understanding of the purpose of food and eating may be instructive when we think about inadequacies in his understan…
In Search of Soul
Embodying Forgiveness
Less Law? Or Different Law
constitutional right strike me as tutelary discourse misplaced. They constitute moral discourse of the most peremptory kind, since they preclude other governmental institutions from acting. Further, physician-assisted suicide has not had the kind of social debate that prepares courts to make informed and intelligent judgments. Nor do the conventional sources of judicial wisdom-here principally the Constitution-speak to this issue in ways that rel…
Abortion and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician
Daniel J. Wechter, Gilbert Meilaender, Hannah Klaus, Thomas W. Hilgers, Jeffrey Blustein, Alan R. Fleischman, Abortion and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 25, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), pp. 2-3
On Having a Life
tally infirm' was never implemented. As for the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee meeting once not twice, I stand corrected. If it is technically correct that this committee was funded, it is also true that it never accomplished anything substantive with the money. Finally, Herdman's claim that the OTA report does not argue for a standing body for considering ethical issues is unreasonable. Anyone reading the report will come away with the ide…
Our Vocabularies, Our Selves
David Rothman has noted that at least some of success of bioethics movement this country can be attributed to fortuitous timing. In an age of great concern with civil rights, bioethicists had much in common with new roster of rights agitators who were appearing on American scene.(1) It is, therefore, no surprise that rights talk should have dominated bioethics world, but such an emphasis has problems and dangers. In a powerful attack on uses to w…
Touched by the Eternal
“[W]hatever our weaknesses, they alone do not finally define human nature. We are both finite and free. We are constituted by our finite attachments and commitments, but they cannot stand alone. They must be drawn into the transforming power of God's love. And they can be, for our nature has been taken into the divine life through Christ.”
Terra es animata On Having a Life
To live the risen life with God is, presumably, to be what we are\nmeant to be. What can we conclude about our duties to the dying from the\nmedieval belief that we join the hosts of heaven as "animated earth"?...How\nwrong we would be to suppose that ours is a materialistic age, when everything\nwe hold central to our person is separated from the animated earth that is the\nbody....That bioethics is in danger of losing the body in search of the …
A Feminist Medical Ethics
how our need to control things (and people), our sometime urge to lord it over others, our inclination, even, to boost ourselves at the expense of those who are down on their luck, our occasional wish (to push matters further) to get a kick or two out of those who are suffering long and hard, all have a bearing on how we behave-the thoughts we have, the things we say, the decisions we make. In a bold, candid, lucid manner this book challenges the…
Faith and Faithfulness
Challenging the Limits of Dualism
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A Little Monarchy
Abortion and the Roman Catholic Church
Critical Theory of the Family
Euthanasia & Christian Vision
On Removing Food and Water
A controversy has emerged over whether nutrition and hydration may be\nwithheld from the permanently comatose or even from severely demented patients\nwho retain some consciousness. Meilaender fears that a consensus is building\nto permit withholding, based on the premise that such action constitutes\nallowing to die by removing useless and burdensome medical treatment. He\nargues that the comatose are still persons, that feeding is ordinary huma…
Eritis Sicut Deus
Case Studies
Can Hospital Have Moral Objections
Scott T. Helsper, Jeremiah J. McCarthy, Gilbert Meilaender, Marshall B. Kapp, George J. Annas, Can Hospital Have Moral Objections?, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 17, No. 5 (Oct. - Nov., 1987), pp. 43-44
Abortion
Our moral puzzles about abortion will not be resolved by resort to compromise positions and adoption of middle ground, for abortion concerns how we understand ourselves as a people and how we define membership in this community
Challenging the Limits of Dualism
Faith and Faithfulness
Terra es animata On Having a Life
To live the risen life with God is, presumably, to be what we are\nmeant to be. What can we conclude about our duties to the dying from the\nmedieval belief that we join the hosts of heaven as "animated earth"?...How\nwrong we would be to suppose that ours is a materialistic age, when everything\nwe hold central to our person is separated from the animated earth that is the\nbody....That bioethics is in danger of losing the body in search of the …
A Feminist Medical Ethics
how our need to control things (and people), our sometime urge to lord it over others, our inclination, even, to boost ourselves at the expense of those who are down on their luck, our occasional wish (to push matters further) to get a kick or two out of those who are suffering long and hard, all have a bearing on how we behave-the thoughts we have, the things we say, the decisions we make. In a bold, candid, lucid manner this book challenges the…
On Having a Life
tally infirm' was never implemented. As for the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee meeting once not twice, I stand corrected. If it is technically correct that this committee was funded, it is also true that it never accomplished anything substantive with the money. Finally, Herdman's claim that the OTA report does not argue for a standing body for considering ethical issues is unreasonable. Anyone reading the report will come away with the ide…
Our Vocabularies, Our Selves
David Rothman has noted that at least some of success of bioethics movement this country can be attributed to fortuitous timing. In an age of great concern with civil rights, bioethicists had much in common with new roster of rights agitators who were appearing on American scene.(1) It is, therefore, no surprise that rights talk should have dominated bioethics world, but such an emphasis has problems and dangers. In a powerful attack on uses to w…
Touched by the Eternal
“[W]hatever our weaknesses, they alone do not finally define human nature. We are both finite and free. We are constituted by our finite attachments and commitments, but they cannot stand alone. They must be drawn into the transforming power of God's love. And they can be, for our nature has been taken into the divine life through Christ.”
Abortion and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician
Daniel J. Wechter, Gilbert Meilaender, Hannah Klaus, Thomas W. Hilgers, Jeffrey Blustein, Alan R. Fleischman, Abortion and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 25, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), pp. 2-3
Less Law? Or Different Law
constitutional right strike me as tutelary discourse misplaced. They constitute moral discourse of the most peremptory kind, since they preclude other governmental institutions from acting. Further, physician-assisted suicide has not had the kind of social debate that prepares courts to make informed and intelligent judgments. Nor do the conventional sources of judicial wisdom-here principally the Constitution-speak to this issue in ways that rel…
In Search of Soul
Embodying Forgiveness
The Point of a Ban
troop transport. We sailed alone and in secrecy. We were equipped with winter gear and so were shocked when we landed in Hawaii. There we exchanged for tropical gear and were assigned to Pacific Island bases. It was only later we realized we had been scheduled for an ultimate invasion of North Japan. Had that taken place, thousands of us and thousands of Japanese would have been killed, and likely I would not be writing this letter. So, I, too, a…
The Point of a Ban
Or, How to Think about Stem Cell Research We might be convinced that goal of relieving suffering offers a straightforward justification of sacrificing embryos in research. Or we might hold that although embryos merit our greater good to be achieved by destroying them, more respect must give way to research. Or, if we take notion of respect seriously, we might find that relieving suffering is a real but not supreme imperative. its report Ethical I…
Stem Cell Research
The Author Replies
Sweet Necessities
Central to Augustine's understanding of rightly ordered sexuality is his belief that the pleasure of the act should not be separated from its good (procreation). It is useful to observe that he reasons in a similar way about eating: that the pleasure of eating should not be separated from its good (nourishment). Inadequacies in his understanding of the purpose of food and eating may be instructive when we think about inadequacies in his understan…
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