Walter George Muelder (1907–2004) was an American social ethicist, public theologian, ecumenist, and Methodist minister.
[4] Epke Mueller was a social gospeller who had studied at Boston University under Borden Parker Bowne and Albert C.
[5] His doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of Edgar S. Brightman, was titled Individual Totalities in Ernst Troeltsch's Philosophy of History.
As an ecumenist he was involved in forming early social statements of the World Council of Churches.
Among his major works are Foundations of the Responsible Society (1959) and Moral Law and Christian Ethics (1966).