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  • Faith and Faithfulness
    Gilbert C. Meilaender / Gilbert CMeilaender
    In Faith and Faithfulness Gilbert C. 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 e...
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  • Bioethics and the Character of Human Life
    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...
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    22,05 €

  • Should We Live Forever?
    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 w...
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    24,84 €

  • The Way That Leads There
    Gilbert Meilaender
    Saint Augustine formulated the classic Christian understanding of desire, that 'our hearts are restless until they rest in God.' Gilbert Meilaender maintains that this frustrated desire lies at the heart of our existence. In The Way That Leads There he takes Augustine as a 'conversation partner' for exploring subjects that human beings have wrestled with for centuries -- desire...
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    26,94 €

  • Working
    Gilbert C. Meilaender / Gilbert CMeilaender
    This text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest. ...
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    27,90 €

  • Body, Soul, and Bioethics
    Gilbert C. Meilaender / Gilbert CMeilaender
    In this book noted theologian and ethicist Gilbert C. Meilaender examines how the field of bioethics has developed over the last quarter century and reconsiders some of its central concepts and arguments. Because the literature of bioethics has become increasingly less influenced by religious and theological concerns over the past three decades, it is Meilaender’s specific aim ...
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    28,57 €

  • Theory and Practice of Virtue, The
    Gilbert C. Meilaender / Gilbert CMeilaender
    Many students of philosophical and theological ethics have recently experienced a renewed interest in what may be called an ethic of virtue. Such an ethic focuses less on the concept of duty-or doing-and more on being. Central to an ethic of virtue is a division of moral life that emphasizes character and character development or moral education. The Theory and Practice of Virt...
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    35,60 €

  • Friendship
    Gilbert C. Meilaender / Gilbert CMeilaender
    Certain relationships are of profound importance for the moral life. Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tensions which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, the bond of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a more important topic in the life and thought of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome than it has unusually bee...
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    28,65 €