THINGS THAT COUNT
Essays Moral and Theological
By Gilbert Meilaender
List Item No. 276
ISBN: 882926-36-6 (cloth)
399 pages (includes Index)
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Examining the great works of philosophy, literature, and political theory, as well as contemporary fiction and film, Meilaender provides insights into the human condition. Articulating a refreshing vision of a life defined by right relationships to God, family, and the world around us, Things that Count leads us to consider anew the meaning of our existence as persons and as citizens.
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"Things That Count is a book that can be, indeed should be, savored slowly, one essay at a time. Whether readers ultimately agree with the author is not of primary importance. What is of primary importance is that readers will in all likelihood find themselves engaged, often in new ways and by a different perspective, on things that count, issues that are important."
— Sewanee Theological Review
"These elegant essays provide and outline of sanity for some of the most perplexing ethical issues of our time. Meileander's arguments, solidly grounded in Christian ethics, are a welcome antidote to our society's ethical and legal freefall."
— Andrew Kimbrell, author, The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life
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Chapters Include:
- Friendship Between Men and Women
- Touched by the Eternal
- Marriage in Counterpoint and Harmony
- Homosexuality in Christian Perspective
- I Want to Burden My Loved Ones
- The Meaning of the Presence of Children
- Cloning and Begetting
- Abortion and the Meaning of Parenthood
- C. S. Lewis and a Theology of the Everyday
- On Bringing One's Life to a Point
- Creatures of Time and Place
- To Throw Oneself into the Wave: The Problem of Possessions
- Welcoming the Homage of the Kings
- The Eclipse of Fatherhood
- A View From Somewhere
- The Limits of Tolerance
- Being Modern
- John Paul II Meets John Wesley
- The Lure and Danger of Friendship
- Stoic or Christian?
- Psychoanalyzing C. S. Lewis
- C. S. Lewis Reconsidered
- (Re)reading Augustine's Confessions
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