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  • Christian Ethics

    A Short Companion

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    Series series Essentials in Christian Ethics
    Jesus’s final command to his disciples at the Last Supper is a calling to an ethic of love. In Christian Ethics: A Short Companion, renowned ethicist Gilbert Meilaender makes the case that all Christian ethics are an outworking of this command to love one another.Meilaender accordingly lays out a vision for the spirit and structure of the Christian life, while drawing directly upon theologians ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioethics

    A Primer for Christians

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    Amid continuing advances in medical research and treatment, Gilbert Meilaender’s Bioethics has long provided thoughtful guidance on many of society’s most difficult moral problems—including abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic experimentation, euthanasia, and much more. In this fourth edition, Meilaender updates much of the data referenced in the book and responds directly to recent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioethics and the Character of Human Life

    Essays and Reflections

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    In the essays collected here Gilbert Meilaender invites readers to reflect upon some of the bioethical issues that are important for all of us. The essays treat bioethics less as a discipline confined to a few experts than as a deeply humanistic set of concerns that inevitably draws us into religious and metaphysical issues. From reflections on his experience as a member of the President's Council ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioethics

    A Primer for Christians

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    Amid continuing advances in medical research and treatment, Gilbert Meilaender's Bioethics has long provided thoughtful guidance on many of society's most difficult moral problems—including abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic experimentation, euthanasia, and much more. In this fourth edition, Meilaender updates much of the data referenced in the book and responds directly to recent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioethics

    A Primer for Christians, Third Edition

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    In the face of continuing advances in medical research and treatment, bioethics remains a serious ongoing social concern. For nearly two decades Gilbert Meilaender's Bioethics has offered discerning Christian guidance on a wide range of pressing issues in medical ethics.Now in its third edition, Meilaender's Bioethics covers abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic research, suicide and euthanasia ... Read more

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  • Should We Live Forever?

    The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    In Should We Live Forever? Christian ethicist Gilbert Meilaender puzzles over the implications of the medical advances that have lengthened the human life span, wrestling with what this quest for living longer means for our conception of living well and completely. As he points out in his introduction, "That we often desire, even greedily desire, longer life is clear; whether what we desire is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neither Beast Nor God

    The Dignity of the Human Person

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought to be treated as equals? Or is it what distinguishes some greater and more admirable human beings from ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Thy Will Be Done

    The Ten Commandments and the Christian Life

    by Gilbert Meilaender ...
    This short, accessible, but theologically substantive volume unfolds the significance of the Ten Commandments for the Christian life. Gilbert Meilaender, one of today's leading Christian ethicists, places the commandments in the larger context of the biblical history of redemption and invites readers to wrestle with how human loves should relate to the first commandment: to love God above all else ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why People Matter

    A Christian Engagement with Rival Views of Human Significance

    by Russell DiSilvestro, David Gushee, Amy Hall, Gilbert Meilaender, Patrick Smith, Scott Ray ...
    Amid current arguments related to human life and dignity, Christians must be clear about how their faith speaks to such concerns and what other outlooks have to say. This book brings together noted ethicists--Russell DiSilvestro, David P. Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, John F. Kilner, Gilbert C. Meilaender, Scott B. Rae, and Patrick T. Smith--to make a Christian case for human dignity. It offers a robust ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Future is Now

    America Confronts the New Genetics

    by Eric Cohen, George J. Annas, Ronald Bailey, Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond, J Bottum, Sen Sam Brownback, President George W. Bush, Kenneth L. Connor, Richard M. Doerflinger, Michael J. Fox0, Bill Frist1, Francis Fukuyama2, Robert P. George3, James K. Glassman4, Rep James Greenwood5, Sen Tom Harkin6, Sen Orrin G. Hatch7, Gertrude Himmelfarb8, Aldous Huxley9, Leon R. Kass0, Michael Kinsley1, Charles Krauthammer2, Rep Dennis J. Kucinich3, Joshua Lederberg4, Gilbert Meilaender5, H J. Muller6, National Bioethics Advisory Commission7, Edmund D. Pellegrino8, Rael9, Paul Ramsey0, William Saletan1, Wesley J. Smith2, James A. Thomson3, Laurence H. Tribe4, James D. Watson5, Michael D. West6, Ian Wilmut7, Adam Wolfson8 ...
    This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver

    Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass

    by Eric Cohen, Rebecca Dresser, Michael Fishbane, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Amy Kass, Ralph Lerner, Yuval Levin, Paul Ludwig0, Nelson Lund1, Harvey C. Mansfield2, Paul McHugh3, Gilbert Meilaender4, Diana Schaub5 ...
    Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades-as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass's ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Love Thy Body

    Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality

    by Nancy Pearcey ...
    Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories:● Transgenderism: Activists detach gender from biology. Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their body is irrelevant to their authentic self. Is this affirming--or does it demean the body?● Homosexuality: Advocates disconnect sexuality from biological identity as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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