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2008 Colloquium Speakers

Gilbert Meilaender has taught since 1996 at Valparaiso University, where he holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics.  Prior to coming there, he had taught at the University of Virginia and at Oberlin College, where he was Francis Ward and Lydia Lord Davis Professor of Religion.  He holds the Ph.D. degree (1976) from Princeton University.

Professor Meilaender has published eleven books and numerous articles.  Among the books are Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics; Faith and Faithfulness: The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C.S. Lewis; Basic Themes in Christian Ethics; Bioethics: A Primer for Christians; Body, Soul and Bioethics; The Way that Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life; and (an edited volume of readings) Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits.  He is co-editor (with William Werpehowski) of the Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics.  He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics, as an Associate Editor of Religious Studies Review, and on the Editorial Board and currently as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics.

Bioethics is one of the areas to which Professor Meilaender has given considerable attention in his teaching and writing.  He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center and has been a member of the President's Council on Bioethics since it was established in January, 2002.

On the faculty of Montreat College since 1974, Don W. King is Professor of English, and he serves as Editor of the Christian Scholar’s Review.  He has published articles in Books & Culture, The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal, Christianity and Literature, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, Christian Scholar’s Review, The Chronicle of the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society, The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C. S. Lewis Society, Mythlore, SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and contributed articles on Lewis’ poetry to The C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia and to C. S. Lewis—Life, Works, and Legacy.  King is also author of C. S. Lewis, Poet:  The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (Kent State University Press, 2001).  His book length manuscript on British poet Ruth Pitter, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter, will be published by Kent State University Press in Spring 2008. He is currently researching and writing a manuscript on the life, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of the wife of C. S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, tentatively entitled Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman.

Kerry Dearborn is Professor of Theological Studies at Seattle Pacific University.  She studied at Fuller Theological Seminary and received her Ph.D. from University of Aberdeen.  Dr. Kerry Dearborn began teaching at SPU in 1994. She also teaches theology classes for Fuller Seminary Extension in Seattle and Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. In addition to teaching, Dr. Dearborn has enjoyed speaking at churches, conferences and universities in the US and the UK. She gave a Staley lecture at John Brown University, the Clappe-Wesche Lecture Series at George Fox and Western Seminary, public lectures at Regent College, Vancouver, and lectured at conferences at Pt. Loma University, Cambridge University, Regent College and with Ivy Jungle. She has spoken or taught classes at a number of churches as well as for Young Life’s Malibu Discipleship Weekend. She delights in developing relationships with students and the gift of being involved in a regular Bible Study group with students. Kerry Dearborn’s research interests are Trinitarian theology, Julian of Norwich, George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, Celtic Spirituality.   She is the author of Baptized Imagination: The Theology of George MacDonald, published in 2006.