Download PDF: COMING SOON Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, 4th edition Gilbert Meilaender, Eerdmans, 2020. ISBN 978-0-8028-7816-8, 156 pages, Paperback, $20.99.   Gilbert Meilaender, I believe, is among us for such a time as this. I first met Dr. Meilaender in the late 1970s as a pre-med student enrolled in his course on C.S. Lewis. It was a wonderfully demanding course, and Dr. Meilaender, formerly a Lutheran pastor, challenged us to “go deeper” in all we thought and wrote. A year or two later, I stopped by his office to pay my respects as each of us was preparing to leave the University of Virginia, he to teach at Oberlin and I to study medicine in Washington. Many years later, he and I have never entirely left behind that meeting space and that attitude, and his thought continues to encourage and inform this thirty-year veteran of critical care medicine. Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, now in its fourth edition, first appeared in 1996—an era vastly different from our own, yet one in which the challenging bioethical thickets of today were taking root. In the current text, Meilaender preserves his twelve-chapter format and subject headings, updating his book to keep pace […]