Justice and Rights

Deep and exciting encounters between theology and the leading edges of scholarship in universities have never been so essential. In partnership with the Global Faculty Initiative, the Cross-Disciplinary Encounters with Theology series brings together global scholars from diverse academic disciplines in rounds of dialogue and response on key themes of the Christian faith, including justice and rights, created order, and the virtues.

This first volume, Justice and Rights, brings world-renowned theologian Nicholas Wolterstorff into conversation with academics from across five continents in humanities, social sciences, law and public policy, medicine and physical sciences to explore the salience of justice and rights for the substance of their scholarship and academic practices. In compact briefs and notes that are quickly and easily read, the contributors skillfully engage with many of the most pressing issues of our time. The first series of its kind, these conversations empower disciplinary scholars to think theologically about their scholarship and academic life.

K. K. YEO is Kendall professor of New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and affiliate faculty in the department of Asian languages and cultures at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. He has authored or edited more than forty books on the Bible and cultures in Chinese and English, including the Majority World Theology series (2020) and the Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China (2021).

TERENCE C. HALLIDAY is a research professor emeritus at the American Bar Foundation and an honorary professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (REGNET) at the Australian National University. He has published extensively on globalization of law, markets and politics with recent books in the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. With Donald Hay, he co-founded the Global Faculty Initiative.