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10 Facts About Gilbert Meilaender

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Gilbert Meilaender was born on January 31,1946 and is an American Lutheran bioethicist and theologian.

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Gilbert Meilaender 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.

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Gilbert Meilaender's father was a Lutheran pastor, and Meilaender followed in his footsteps to become a Lutheran pastor.

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Gilbert Meilaender held the Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University from 1996 to 2014.

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Gilbert Meilaender has served as a Fellow of the Hastings Center and as Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

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Gilbert Meilaender has served as an associate editor of Religious Studies Review, an associate editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics, and as a consultant editor of Studies in Christian Ethics.

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Gilbert Meilaender served on the board of directors of the Society of Christian Ethics.

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Gilbert Meilaender has had a decades-long relationship with First Things, which he has served both as a writer and on the editorial advisory board.

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Gilbert Meilaender has served as a contributing editor for The New Atlantis.

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Gilbert Meilaender served as coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, which discusses the field of ethics within a Christian framework.