Scott R. Paeth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. He works in the fields of Christian Social Ethics and Public Theology. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School. He is the author or editor of five books, including Public Theology for a Global Society: Essays in Honor of Max Stackhouse (Eerdmans, 2010), Exodus Church and Civil Society: Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann (Ashgate, 2008); Who Do You Say That I Am? Christology and Identity in the United Church of Christ (United Church Press, 2006); Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (Sheed & Ward, 2006); and The Local Church in a Global Era: Reflections for a New Century (Eerdmans, 2000).
Books
Shaping Public Theology: Selections from the Writings of Max L. Stackhouse (with E. Harold Brietenberg and Hak Joon Lee) (2013)
Max L. Stackhouse is one of the most prolific and influential American theologians of the...
Public Theology for a Global Society: Essays in Honor of Max Stackhouse (with Deirdre King Hainsworth) (2009)
Exodus Church and Civil Society: Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann (2008)
This book investigates the intersection of theology and social theory in the work of Jurgen...
Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (with Thomas O'Brien) (2006)
In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique...
Who Do You Say That I Am? Christology and Identity in the United Church of Christ (2006)
"Our goal is not to interpret [Jesus Christ] for the church, but simply to offer...
Articles
"The Responsibility to Lie and the Obligation to Report, Journal of Business Ethics (2013)
This article is an examination of the moral complexity of the act of whistleblowing in...
Eight Is Enough?: The Ethics of the California Octuplets Case, Christian Bioethics (2012)
The recent California octuplets case raises a number of important issues that need to be...
The Great Recession: Some Niebuhrian Reflections, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2012)
"This moment of economic crisis has intersected with another moment, one of renewed interest in...
Building Communities of Trust: The Church and Moral Formation in Civil Society, University of Chicago Divinity School Religion & Culture Web Forum (2011)
You Make All Things New, International Journal of Public Theology (2011)
This article examines the way in which the theology of Jonathan Edwards can contrib- ute...
Contributions to Books
Religious Communities in Global Civil Society: Moral Formation and Interreligious Cooperation in a Pluralistic Context, Public Theology for a Global Society: Essays in Honor of Max Stackhouse (2009)
“A Brief Introduction to Ethical Theory”, Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (2006)
“Introduction: Religious Ethics and the Practice of Business”, Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (2006)
“Introduction: Who Do We Say He Is?”, Who Do You Say That I Am? (2006)
Popular Press
The Moral Complexity of Video Games, The Christian Century (2012)
Over the past two decades, video games have reached a level of technological sophistication that...