More on Meilaender

I want to echo the disappointment that Robby expressed regarding Gene McCarraher's (uncharacteristically, I think) mean-spirited and unfair letter about Gilbert Meilaender to which Michael linked recently.  Prof. Meilaender is, in my view, among the most eloquent and inspiring Christian thinkers alive.  Here is more from Neither Beast Nor God:

To be a person is not to have something but to be someone.  It is persons who are equidistant from Eternity and equal in dignity. . . .  As human beings we share the characteristic human form and participate in its dignity, whatever our individual traits or capacities; as persons who always exist in relation to God, we are radically individual and equal.