God and Globalization, Vol. 2: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities (Theology for the 21st Century) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563383306 ISBN 13: 9781563383304

Publisher: Trinity Press International, 2001

Synopsis

The promise and the threat of globalization are examined, using the tools of theological ethics to understand and evaluate the social contexts of life at the deepest moral and spiritual levels.

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About the Author

Normal 0 Max L. Stackhouse is Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Professor ofReformed Theology and Public Life Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminaryand coordinating editor of the God and Globalization series.
Don S. Browning teaches at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

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God and Globalization: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities, the second in a four-volume set, provides a lively dialogue between theology, ethics, and social theory. By examining advances in technology and communication and the breakdown of traditional political structures, this series explores the impact that globalization has on our lives, ideas, and culture.

As Globalization continues apace, a number of Authorities or Powers - Education, Law, Medicine, Technology - have established ethical guidelines and social values that the world has begun to accept as normative. In God and Globalization, Volume 2, contributors confront these Authorities and engage them in theological and ethical discussion. In his examination of contemporary education, Richard Osmer demonstrates that religious communities can play a new and significant role in public education. John Witte, Jr. explores the relationship between human rights and religion in the new global era. Probing the implications of globalization for medical technology and health care, Allen Verhey argues that ethical consequences of any advances in medicine must be a part of the conversation about the usefulness of such advances. In his analysis of the relationship between theology and science, Ronald Cole-Turner warns against making a religion of technology. As a response to the destruction of the environment, Jürgen Moltmann proposes a "divine ecology" and a "Sabbath of the earth." Finally, Peter Paris asks whether a common moral discourse is possible, and suggests a model of virtue drawn from the lives and work of contemporary Christian and political exemplars of virtue such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Desmond Tutu.

This volume of God and Globalization offers an important and useful resource for understanding the forces of globalization and for discussing significant ways that communities can confront the changes that accompany globalization.

Max L. Stackhouse is the Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Christian Social Ethics in a Global Era.

Don S. Browning teaches at the Divinity School of University of Chicago and is the author of Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology of Culture.

Also in this series:

God and Globalization Volume 1: Religion and the Powers of the Common Life, edited by Max L. Stackhouse with Peter J. Paris

God and Globalization Volume 3: Christ and the Dominions of Civilization, edited by Max L. Stackhouse with Diane B. Obenchain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trinity Press International
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563383306
• ISBN 13: 9781563383304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Don S. Browning, Max L. Stackhouse