God and Globalization: Volume 1 Religion and

Is God behind globalization in any substantive way? Contributors examine both the promise and threat of globalization using the tools of theological ethics to understand and evaluate the social contexts of life at the deepest moral and spiritual levels.

Max L. Stackhouse is the Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary Peter J. Paris is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary

Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(2)

Max L. Stackhouse

A Revealing Moment

3

(9)

Review of the ``Powers and Principalities''

12

(3)

The ``Authorities'' of Our Times

15

(6)

The Influence of the New Regencies

21

(6)

The Ascendancy of Nature

27

(3)

What Can Guide the Authorities?

30

(7)

The Teaching Ministry in a Multicultural World

37

(39)

Richard Osmer

Globalization: The Emerging Context of Education

37

(12)

Challenges to Modern Public Education

49

(6)

A New Role for Religious Communities in the Education of the Public?

55

(1)

The Perennial Tasks of Christian Education

56

(6)

The Challenges of Globalization to the Perennial Tasks

62

(13)

Conclusion

75

(1)

The Spirit of the Laws, the Laws of the Spirit: Religion and Human Rights in a New Global Era

76

(31)

John Witte, Jr.

A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights

79

(5)

Religion and Human Rights

84

(3)

Human Rights and Religion

87

(4)

A Human Rights Hermeneutic within Religion

91

(2)

Human Rights and Catholicism

93

(5)

Human Rights and Protestantism

98

(5)

Final Reflections

103

(4)

The Spirit of God and the Spirit of Medicine: The Church, Globalization, and a Mission of Health Care

107

(32)

Allen Verhey

Medicine and the Power of Death

109

(4)

``We Live by the Spirit''

113

(6)

Remembering the Mission of the Church

119

(7)

Globalization, Medicine, and the Future

126

(13)

Science, Technology, and the Mission of Theology in a New Century

139

(27)

Ronald Cole-Turner

Theology and Science

140

(4)

Questions Raised by Contemporary Technologies

144

(11)

Religions of Technology

155

(7)

Technology and Mission

162

(4)

The Destruction and Healing of the Earth: Ecology and Theology

166

(25)

Jurgen Moltmann

The Destruction of the Earth

167

(3)

The Religious Crisis of the Modern World

170

(5)

Three Conversions Regarding the Earth

175

(5)

The New Earth Hypothesis: ``Gaia''

180

(3)

Human Beings and Nature in Covenant with God

183

(3)

The Sabbath of the Earth: The Divine Ecology

186

(3)

Globalization and Ecumenism

189

(2)

Moral Exemplars in Global Community

191

(30)

Peter J. Paris

Is a Common Moral Discourse Possible?

191

(4)

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

195

(6)

The Person-Community Relationship

201

(4)

Contemporary Christian Exemplars of Virtue

205

(6)

Contemporary Political Exemplars of Virtue

211

(5)

The Virtue of Just Peacemaking throughout the World

216

(2)

Concluding Observations

218

(3)

Selected Bibliography

221

(14)

Index

235

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God and Globalization: Volume 1 Religion and the Powers of the Common Life

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