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Gilbert Meilaender
Gilbert Meilaender (born January 31, 1946) is a prominent American Lutheran bioethicist and theologian. He is Senior Research Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University, and served on the President's Council on Bioethics from its founding in 2002 until its dissolution in 2009. Early life and teaching career Meilaender was born on January 31, 1946. His father was a Lutheran pastor, and Meilaender followed in his footsteps to also become a Lutheran pastor. He received his B.A. from Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and went on to receive his Master of Divinity in 1972 from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Meilaender earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1976, where he studied under prominent Christian ethicist Paul Ramsey. Meilaender taught at the University of Virginia from 1975 to 1978 and at Oberlin College from 1978 to 1996. He held the Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University from 1996 to 2014. As of 2020, he is Senior R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concordia Seminary
Concordia Seminary is a Lutheran seminary in Clayton, Missouri. The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). Founded in 1839, the seminary initially resided in Perry County, Missouri. In 1849, it was moved to St. Louis, and in 1926, the current campus was built. The St. Louis institution was at one time considered the "theoretical" (academic) seminary of the LCMS while Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne was considered the "practical" seminary, although those distinctions no longer exist. Concordia Seminary currently offers a Master of Divinity degree leading to ordination, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The seminary is considered theologically conservative. It does not train women for ordination as pastors. However, it does offer a program by which women may be rostered as deac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studies In Christian Ethics
''Studies in Christian Ethics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers Christian ethics and moral theology. The editor-in-chief is Susan Frank Parsons. It was established in 1988 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. Abstracting and indexing ''Studies in Christian Ethics'' is abstracted and indexed in: * Index theologicus * International Bibliography of Periodical Literature * Religion & Philosophy Collection * Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ... External links * Society for the Study of Christian Ethics SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals Ethics journals Christianity studies journals Academic journals established in 1988 Quarterly jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Lutheran Theologians
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Living People
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1946 Births
Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister of Albania, prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics known as the Delegates of the Press, who are appointed by the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Delegates of the Press are led by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University Press has had a similar governance structure since the 17th century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho. For the last 500 years, OUP has primarily focused on the publication of pedagogical texts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crux (online Newspaper)
''Crux'' is an online newspaper that focuses on news related to the Catholic Church. From September 2014 until March 2016, it was owned by ''The Boston Globe''. Since April 2016, it has been independently owned. History ''Crux'' was launched in September 2014, as part of a project by ''The Boston Globe'' to sponsor multiple specialized websites. It covered the Catholic Church and numerous subjects concerning life as a Catholic in the United States, including advice columns. ''Crux'' featured deep coverage of the Holy See and employed a Vatican correspondent in its six-person editorial staff. Its associate editor was John L. Allen Jr., a long-time and well-known Vatican watcher. Allen, together with Inés San Martín, today Rome Bureau Chief of Crux, and Shannon Levitt, associate editor, were the original founders of Crux, as he has referred to the news outlet after The Boston Globe decided to pull the plug. On March 31, 2016, ''The Globe'' ended its association with ''Crux'', c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity Today
''Christianity Today'' is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham. It is published by Christianity Today International based in Carol Stream, Illinois. ''The Washington Post'' calls ''Christianity Today'' "evangelicalism's flagship magazine". ''The New York Times'' describes it as a "mainstream evangelical magazine". On August 4, 2022, Russell D. Moore—notable for denouncing and leaving the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention—was named the incoming Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief. ''Christianity Today'' has a print circulation of approximately 130,000, of which approximately 36,000 is free, and readership of 260,000, as well as a website at ChristianityToday.com. The founder, Billy Graham, stated that he wanted to "plant the evangelical flag in the middle of the road, taking the conservative theological position but a definite liberal approach to social problems". Other active publications currently active within Christianity Tod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World (magazine)
''World'' (often stylized in all-caps as ''WORLD'') is a biweekly Christian news magazine, published in the United States by God's World Publications, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Asheville, North Carolina. ''World''s declared perspective is one of Christian evangelical Protestantism. Each issue features both U.S. and international news, cultural analysis, editorials and commentary, as well as book, music and movie reviews. ''World''s end-of-the-year issue covers stories from the previous year, obituaries, and statistics. History Launched by Joel Belz in 1986 as a replacement for ''The Presbyterian Journal'', a publication issued over the previous 44 years that had been founded specifically "to challenge the assumptions and activities of the liberals and to return the Southern Presbyterian denomination to its biblical moorings", ''World'' was intended to serve "an educational rather than an ecclesiastical task—a vision focused on the importance of a biblical wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing in 2007.About Wiley-Blackwell John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Wiley-Blackwell is now an imprint that publishes a diverse range of academic and professional fields, including , , , |
The New Atlantis (journal)
''The New Atlantis'' is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center. In January 2018, it became independent of EPPC; it is now published by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. The journal covers topics about the social, ethical, political, and policy dimensions of modern science and technology. It is not peer reviewed. The journal is published in Washington, D.C. by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. It is edited by Ari Schulman, having previously been edited by co-founders Eric Cohen and Adam Keiper. The journal's name is taken from Francis Bacon's utopian novella ''New Atlantis'', which the journal's editors describe as a "fable of a society living with the benefits and challenges of advanced science and technology." An editorial in the inaugural issue states that the aim of the journal is "to help us avoid the extremes of euphoria and despair that new technologies too often arouse; and to help u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Things
''First Things'' (''FT'') is an ecumenical and conservative religious journal aimed at "advanc nga religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The magazine, which focuses on theology, liturgy, church history, religious history, culture, education, society and politics, is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society. Published by the New York–based Institute on Religion and Public Life (IRPL), ''First Things'' is published monthly, except for bi-monthly issues covering June/July and August/September. ''First Things'' was founded in March 1990 by Richard John Neuhaus, a clergyman, intellectual, writer and activist. He started the journal, along with some long-time friends and collaborators, after his connection with the Rockford Institute was severed. With a circulation of approximately 30,000 copies, ''FT'' is considered to be influential in its arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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