Things That Count: Essays Moral and Theological

by Gilbert Meilaender

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781882926367
Publisher:	ISI Books
Publication date:	02/01/2000
Pages:	399
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.34(d)
Lexile:	1280L (what's this?)

What People are Saying About This

Vigen Guroian

Gilbert Meilaender is one of the truly gifted essayists writing on religious and moral subjects today. Whether he's explaining the meanings of marriage and parenthood, addressing the importance of having a place in one's life and knowing what to do with one's possessions, or is picking up anew the work of one of the masters of Christian theology and literature, Meilaender enters into his subject matter with grace and great insight. This gathering of essays, written over the space of twenty years, is really quite special.
— (Vigen Guroian, author of Tending the Heart of Virtue and Inheriting Paradise )

Andrew Kimbrell

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 of The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life)

Richard John Neuhaus

In the writing of Gilbert Meilaender moral wisdom is joined to stylistic grace, and perennial truths are renewed in engagement with contemporary concerns. There is nobody writing on ethics today whose work is more consistently rewarding.
— Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-chief, First Things

Leon R. Kass

Gilbert Meilaender, a pillar of common sense and uncommon wisdom, finds in the many surfaces of everyday life the deepest truths of the human condition. His essays are wonderfully thoughtful, well argued, and gracefully written. One learns something important from him on almost every page about marriage, parenthood, friendship, politics, and man's relation to the divine. No one writing today about these matters does it better.
— Leon R. Kass, Addie Clark Harding Professor, The Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago.