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Gilbert Meilaender to Give 2008 Oberlin College Baccalaureate Address OBERLIN, OHIO — Oberlin College will hold its 2008 Baccalaureate Service Sunday, May 25 at 1:30 p.m. in Warner Concert Hall. Noted theologian and bioethicist Gilbert Meilaender will discuss "Loving God With The Mind." The program also will include a celebration of the life of the late Rev. Manfred J. Lassen, who served as Oberlin College Protestant chaplain from 1987 until his death this year. The event is free and open to the public. Warner Concert Hall is located in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 77 West College Street. A member of Oberlin’s Department of Religion from 1978 to 1996, Meilaender is a professor of theology and the Phyllis & Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He is one of 17 thinkers and scientists who are members of President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics. Meilaender and his colleagues advise President Bush on stem-cell and cloning research, as well as other hot button medical-ethical issues, keep the president and nation informed of new developments, and provide a forum for discussion and evaluation. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for College Teachers, Meilaender is a fellow at the Hastings Center and the author of numerous essays, book chapters, articles, and books, including The Freedom of a Christian: Essays on the Moral Life and The Way that Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life. Meilaender has served in various editorial capacities for the Religious Studies Review, the Annual of the Society of Religious Ethics, and First Things. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics since 1992 and recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics. The first address at Oberlin designated as baccalaureate was presented in August 1859 as part of the College’s 26th commencement by the Reverend John Morgan, professor of the literature of the New Testament and of the history of the church. Media Contact:
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