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John F. Kilner

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John F. Kilner
File:John F. Kilner August 2019.jpgJohn F. Kilner August 2019.jpg John F. Kilner August 2019.jpg
John F. Kilner - August 2019
Born1952
🏳️ NationalityUSA
💼 Occupation
Professor, Researcher, Author
📆 Years active  Late 20th and early 21st centuries
TitleProfessor Emeritus of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture, Trinity International University
Board member ofSenior Fellow, The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity, Illinois
👩 Spouse(s)Suzanne Miiller Kilner
🏅 AwardsExemplary Achievement, Book of the Year, and Educator of the Year awards

John F. Kilner (born August 12, 1952) is a bioethicist trained at Harvard, Gordon-Conwell, and Yale. Until retiring in 2019—becoming Professor Emeritus—he held the Franklin and Dorothy Forman endowed chair in ethics and theology at Trinity International University, where he was also Professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture and Director of Bioethics Degree Programs. He is a Senior Fellow at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD) based in Deerfield, Illinois, where he served as Founding Director until Fall 2005. He has led educational initiatives in various parts of the world, spearheaded numerous research initiatives involving many collaborators, and authored/edited over 20 books.

Biography

Kilner[1] grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. He won the Illinois State Debate Championship and the United States National Debate Championship with his partner Robert Biederman at the end of his high school years at New Trier East High School, where he graduated as valedictorian.

Kilner received the Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Yale University, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with departmental honors in English Literature. He then earned the Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where graduated summa cum laude, Phi Alpha Chi, as valedictorian. Next he earned Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Harvard University. His general doctoral exams and PhD dissertation were recognized "with distinction."

The next eight years, beginning in 1983, were spent in the Lexington, Kentucky area, where jKilner was a professor of social ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary and taught medical ethics at the University of Kentucky in addition to leading the ethics grand rounds program at the U. K. medical school. Following three years as Senior Associate at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics in Chicago, in 1993 Kilner became the founding director of the Bannockburn Institute for Christianity and Contemporary Culture and its Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, in Bannockburn, Illinois. He also received a teaching post at nearby Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

In 1996 he was promoted at Trinity to the rank of full Professor, and in 1999 was awarded the Franklin and Dorothy Forman endowed chair in ethics and theology. In 2005 he shifted his main administrative work from directing the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity to becoming the Director of Bioethics Programs at Trinity International University. There he oversaw the development of funded initiatives to equip groups of leaders in such locations as India, Africa, the vicinity of China, and the U.S. to help people throughout their regions understand and engage bioethical challenges. Upon retirement from Trinity, he was named Professor Emeritus of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture there.[2]

Kilner has appeared in interviews and debates in such television venues as NBC (with Tom Brokaw), FOX News (with Bill O'Reilly), CBS, CNN, and PAX, such radio venues as National Public Radio, Moody Broadcasting Network, and Salem Network, and such newspaper venues as the New York Times, Washington Times, and Chicago Tribune.[3] His other honors include an Educator of the Year Award from the national Christian Medical & Dental Associations;[4] the International Paul Ramsey Award for Exemplary Achievement in the Field of Bioethics from the Center for Bioethics & Culture Network;[5] and a Book of the Year award from Christianity Today for his book Dignity and Destiny.[6]

He has lectured at such universities as Harvard U., Johns Hopkins U., Seoul National U. (South Korea), and the U. of Nairobi (Kenya); such seminaries as Gordon-Conwell, Talbot, Presbyterian (South Korea), and Yale; such U.S. organizations as the American Health Association, the American Medical Association, the American Scientific Affiliation, and the American Society on Aging; such international organizations as Breakthrough International (China), Center for Bioethics and Public Policy (Belgium), Lausanne World Bioethics Consultation (Thailand), and Ustav Medicinskej Etiky a Bioetiky (Slovakia); such churches as the ELCA National Conference (Kentucky), Harvest (Illinois), Menlo Park Presbyterian (California), and Willow Creek (Illinois); and such medical centers as Cleveland Clinic, Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele (Italy), and Mayo Clinic.[7]

In addition to naming Kilner Professor Emeritus of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture, Trinity International University has named in his honor the annual John Kilner Lectureship in Bioethics,[8] plus the Kilner Student Mentorship Fund at the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.[9]

Research

Kilner's first major project involved conducting in-depth interviews with government and missionary health care workers as well as with traditional healers (witchdoctors, herbalists, midwives) among the Akamba people in Kenya. The purpose was to gain cross-cultural insight into how decisions are made regarding who receives access to limited health care resources when not enough are available for all. The study had an empirical dimension to it, investigating the effect of such variables as exposure to Western values (through the educational system) on what people consider to be ethical approaches to resource allocation. That study was published in the Hastings Center Report,[10] with further analysis in the Yale University Press book Who Lives? Who Dies?[11] and the Eerdmans book Life on the Line.[12]

Shortly thereafter, Kilner carried out a questionnaire survey in which nearly half of the medical directors of kidney dialysis and kidney transplantation facilities in the United States participated. Directors identified the weight that each of 16 different patient selection criteria receive in selecting patients for treatment (e.g., medical benefit, social value, age). They also indicated how that weight would increase or decrease were medical resources to become somewhat more limited in supply. That study was originally published in the American Journal of Public Health,[13] with further analysis in the book Who Lives? Who Dies?[14]

Other research projects were next carried out with Research Awards from the American Academy of Religion and the Roothbert Fund.[15] Later, as Director of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Kilner orchestrated the development of a foundation-funded research project on ethical and religious perspectives on emerging biotechnologies. The project involved a team of scholars with different relevant areas of expertise, including Edmund Pellegrino from Georgetown University (soon thereafter the Chair of the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics), Christopher Hook from Mayo Clinic, Jean Bethke Elshtain from the University of Chicago, Ben Mitchell from Trinity International University, Scott Rae from Biola University, and Kilner. The project resulted in the Georgetown University Press book Biotechnology and the Human Good.[16]

Upon moving from the Center to his position as Director of Bioethics Programs for Trinity International University, Kilner obtained a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning (Indiana) for a research project on “The Pedagogical Challenges of Engaging Bioethical Issues across the Theological Curriculum.”[17] For this project he assembled a team of faculty from each of the departments at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School to study several key bioethical challenges and to develop teaching strategies for how their various departments could best prepare students for these challenges.

Next, Kilner received a foundation grant to work with Mayo Clinic’s William Cheshire and Zion Clinic’s John Dunlop on a second phase of this research initiative, in which a wide range of Trinity faculty developed true-to-life case studies illustrating how various bioethical challenges arise in people’s lives. These faculty then led a study process involving the other faculty in their departments to identify all the ways that their academic disciplines could help individuals and churches understand and engage these challenges.[18] This research resulted in the Zondervan book Why the Church Needs Bioethics.[19]

Kilner’s most recent research project included a foundation grant to undertake a seven-year investigation of why people matter—specifically, what it means for people to be created and renewed in the image of God. The research included documenting the many ways that the image-of-God concept has been used for liberation and for devastation, depending on how the concept has been understood. The project analyzed over 1100 published discussions of the image of God, along with the various passages in the Bible where this concept is employed. This research has resulted in Kilner’s book on the image of God, Dignity and Destiny, released by Eerdmans in 2015.[20] In it, Kilner argues that the image of God has not been damaged by sin because Jesus Christ is the image of God and people have been created according to--and need to be restored to--Christ's image.

Kilner then assembled the team of Gilbert Meilaender from Valparaiso University (and member of the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics), Amy Laura Hall from Duke University, Scott Rae from Biola University, David Gushee from Mercer University, Russell DiSilvestro from California State University, and Patrick Smith from Duke University. The team’s purpose was to compare a biblical account of why people matter with contemporary secular accounts of why people matter. The result of that collaboration was Kilner’s edited book, Why People Matter, released by Baker Academic in 2017.[21]

Publications

Kilner has authored or edited over 20 books on issues in bioethics (see list below). He has also written articles appearing in such publications as the Hastings Center Report; Journal of Health Politics, Policy, & Law; American Journal of Public Health; American Journal of Jurisprudence; Interpretation; Healthcare Executive; Journal of International Biotechnology Law; Mayo Clinic Proceedings; Archives of Internal Medicine; American Journal of Kidney Diseases; Ethics & Medicine; Hospital Practice; Journal of Religious Ethics; Christianity Today; Moody Monthly, and Christian Scholars Review.[22] He was selected to write the sections on human dignity, on macroallocation of healthcare resources, and on microallocation of healthcare resources for the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (published by Macmillan);[23] and the section addressing the issue of stem cell research for the Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity.[24]

Among his most significant books that did not emerge primarily from one of the research projects described above is Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection, published by Yale University Press.[25] In this book, Kilner explains and critiques 15 major criteria for deciding who should receive a lifesaving medical resource when there are not enough resources for all who need them. Each analysis concludes with an illustrative case. The book ends with a proposal regarding what set of criteria constitute the most widely acceptable and ethical approach to allocating vital medical resources.

In Life on the Line,[26] Kilner provides theological grounding and perspective for his previous work on resource allocation and expands that discussion to include end-of-life decision-making involving withholding and withdrawing treatment, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Kilner here develops a biblically-grounded approach to ethical decision-making, with special attention to the implications of resource allocation and end-of-life treatment decisions for elderly persons.

Upon becoming director of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Kilner began work on developing a series of books called the Horizons in Bioethics Series, which Eerdmans Publishing Company has published in the United States and Paternoster Press has published in Europe. Each book focuses on one major topical area within bioethics. For each volume, Kilner, in consultation with others, assembled a team of authors. Kilner himself served as the lead editor of most of those books, including such titles as Bioethics and the Future of Medicine, Dignity and Dying, Genetic Ethics, The Changing Face of Health Care, The Reproduction Revolution, and Cutting-Edge Bioethics (on biotechnology).[27] A similar volume co-edited by Kilner and cardiologist Jay Hollman outside this series is entitled Medical Ethics.[28] It has been published only in the Russian language for use in countries formerly a part of the Soviet Union.

Kilner also co-authored two book initiatives to put Christian perspectives into formats more accessible to non-academic audiences. One is the Tyndale House Publishers’ book Does God Need Our Help? Cloning, Assisted Suicide, & Other Challenges in Bioethics.[29] The other is the BioBasics series of six Q/A books published by Kregel Publications. Kilner wrote each of the BioBasics books with 4-6 other authors. The titles/topics of these books include End of Life Decisions; Reproductive Technology; Suicide and Euthanasia; Alternative Medicine; Healthcare; and Genetics, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning.[30]

Primary Books

Kilner, John F., ed. Why People Matter. Baker Academic, 2017.[31]

Kilner, John F. Dignity and Destiny (Humanity in the Image of God). Eerdmans, 2015.[32]

Kilner, John F., ed. Why the Church Needs Bioethics. Zondervan, 2011.[33]

Kilner, John F., co-authored. Biotechnology and the Human Good. Georgetown U. Press, 2007.[34]

Kilner, John F., co-edited. Bioethics: Opportunity or Obstacle for the Gospel? LCWE, 2005.

Kilner, John F., co-authored. Genetics, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning. Kregel, 2004.

Kilner, John F., co-authored. Healthcare Ethics. Kregel, 2004.

Kilner, John F., co-authored. Does God Need Our Help? (Cloning, Assisted Suicide, and Other Challenges in Bioethics). Tyndale, 2003.

Kilner, John F., co-edited. Cutting-Edge Bioethics (Biotechnology). Eerdmans, 2002.[35]

Kilner, John F., co-edited. The Reproduction Revolution. Eerdmans, 2000.[36]

Kilner, John F., co-edited. Medical Ethics. Bridge Intl., 1999.

Kilner, John F., co-authored. Alternative Medicine. Kregel, 1998.

Kilner, John F., co-authored. End of Life Decisions. Kregel, 1998.

Kilner, John F., co-authored. Sexuality and Reproductive Technology. Kregel, 1998.

Kilner, John F., coauthored. Suicide and Euthanasia. Kregel, 1998.

Kilner, John F., co-edited. The Changing Face of Health Care. Eerdmans and Paternoster, 1998.[37]

Kilner, John F., co-edited. Genetic Ethics. Eerdmans and Paternoster, 1997.[38]

Kilner, John F., co-edited. Dignity and Dying. Eerdmans and Paternoster, 1996.[39]

Kilner, John F., co-edited. Bioethics and the Future of Medicine. Eerdmans and Paternoster, 1995.[40]

Kilner, John F. Life on the Line (Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients' Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources). Eerdmans, 1992.[41]

Kilner, John F. Who Lives? Who Dies? (Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection). Yale University Press, 1990 (paperback edition, 1992).[42]


References

  1. ↑ Much of this information is available at https://graduate.tiu.edu/academics/faculty/john-f-kilner-phd and at https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/btV8ZKdith5YA7.
  2. ↑ https://graduate.tiu.edu/academics/faculty/john-f-kilner-phd
  3. ↑ https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/chi-ugc-article-trinitys-kilner-receives-award-for-excellenc-2014-12-01-story.html
  4. ↑ https://cmda.org/member-awards.
  5. ↑ http://www.ramseyinstitute.org/ramsey-award/recipients. See also https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/chi-ugc-article-trinitys-kilner-receives-award-for-excellenc-2014-12-01-story.html.
  6. ↑ https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/january-february/christianity-todays-2016-book-awards.html. See also https://patch.com/illinois/deerfield/trinitys-kilner-wins-christianity-today-2016-book-award-0.
  7. ↑ See download at https://graduate.tiu.edu/academics/faculty/john-f-kilner-phd. Cf. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/btV8ZKdith5YA7.
  8. ↑ https://news.tiu.edu/2019/03/09/bioethicist-william-hurlbut-to-speak-at-spring-bioethics-lectureship.
  9. ↑ https://news.tiu.edu/2019/07/10/sleasman-named-new-director.
  10. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1972). “Who Shall Be Saved? An African Answer.” In Emily Friedman (ed.). Choices and Conflict. Chicago: American Hospital Association. 22-27. Reprinted from Hastings Center Report (Vol. 14).
  11. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1990). Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  12. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1992), Life on the Line. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  13. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1988) “Selecting Patients When Resources are Limited: A Study of U.S. Medical Directors of Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Facilities.” American Journal of Public Health 78. 144-147.
  14. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1990). Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 20-23
  15. ↑ See download at https://graduate.tiu.edu/academics/faculty/john-f-kilner-phd.
  16. ↑ Mitchell, C. Ben, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott B. Rae (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Christopher Hook’s role is noted at xiii-xiv.
  17. ↑ https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/grants/a-series-of-faculty-meetings-on-the-pedagogical-challenges-of-engaging-bioethical-issues-across-the-theological-curriculum.
  18. ↑ See discussion at http://zondervanacademic.com/blog/kilner1.
  19. ↑ Kilner, John F., ed. (2011). Why the Church Needs Bioethics. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan.
  20. ↑ Kilner, John F. (2015). Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans.
  21. ↑ Kilner, John F., ed. (2017). Why People Matter: A Christian Engagement with Rival Views of Human Significance. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.
  22. ↑ See download at https://graduate.tiu.edu/academics/faculty/john-f-kilner-phd. Cf. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/btV8ZKdith5YA7.
  23. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Bioethics 4th ed. (2014). New York: Macmillan;
  24. ↑ Kilner, John F. (2012). “An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research.” Blackwell Companion to Religion and Science. West Sussex, England: Wiley-Blackwell. 381-392.
  25. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1990). Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  26. ↑ Kilner, John F. (1992).Life on the Line: Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients’ Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans.
  27. ↑ The context and purpose of the series is described on p. ii in Kilner, John F., C. Christopher Hook, and Diann B. Uustal, eds. (2002). Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans.
  28. ↑ Hollman, Jay, and John Kilner, eds. (2000). Medical Ethics. Ashford, Connecticut: Christian Bridge International.
  29. ↑ Kilner, John F., and C. Ben Mitchell (2003). Does God Need Our Help? Cloning, Assisted Suicide, & Other Challenges in Bioethics. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale.
  30. ↑ The context and purpose of this series is described on p. 4 in Bevington, Linda K., Ray G. Bohlin, Gary P. Stewart, John F. Kilner, and C. Christopher Hook (2004). Genetics, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel.
  31. ↑ For reviews see Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 38 (1), 190-192; and Themelios 43 (2), 319-321.
  32. ↑ For reviews see Reviews in Religion & Theology 24 (1), 133-135; and Touchstone 29 (6), 46-48.
  33. ↑ For reviews see Ethics & Medicine 32 (1), 62-63; and Covenant Quarterly 71 (1-2), 90-91.
  34. ↑ For reviews see Studia Bioethica 1 (1), 71; and Heythrop Journal 53 (5), 874-875.
  35. ↑ For reviews see Health Progress 85 (4), 62-63; and Issues in Law & Medicine 18 (2), 206-207.
  36. ↑ For reviews see Reformed Review 54 (2), 141-142; and Bibliotheca Sacra 158 (631), 376-377.
  37. ↑ For reviews see Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2 (2), 211-212; and Journal of Medical Ethics 26 (2), 149-150.
  38. ↑ For reviews see Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50 (4), 298-299; and Didaskalia 10 (1), 94-95.
  39. ↑ For reviews see Christian Scholar's Review 27 (Spr.), 359-361; and Didaskalia 9 (2), 96-98.
  40. ↑ For reviews see The Reformed Theological Review 55 (3), 152-153; and Calvin Theological Journal 32 (2), 529-531.
  41. ↑ For reviews see Medical Humanities Review 7 (2), 13-16; and Religious Studies Review 20 (4), 314.
  42. ↑ For reviews see The New York Review of Books 39 (5), 32-37; and American Journal of Public Health 80 (7), 883.

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