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).
Articles
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...
"Dirty Hands Revisted: Morality, Torture, and Abu Ghraib", Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (2008)
Books
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...