Brent Waters

Just Capitalism is a Christian moral defense of economic globalization as a system that is well-suited to provide the necessary material needs that are prerequisite for human community and flourishing. Global-based market exchange offers the development and distribution of the goods of creation for humans to enjoy and share. Globalization also offers "the most realistic and promising way of exercising a preferential option for the poor." Waters argues that economic globalization, and thus capitalism, is a necessary condition for sustaining human life but not a sufficient condition for enabling human flourishing. Even though globalization is generally compatible with Christian theological and moral claims and can realistically facilitate the well-being of the human family, it must be reoriented toward koinonia -- human community, communication, fellowship -- as the global economy's primary goal in order to help actualize human flourishing. Readers will gain insight about how economic globalization (and thus capitalism) is good for the human family and can be made better by certain reorientations that are compatible with Christian moral values. Waters provides a mature and civil counterargument against knee-jerk condemnations of economic globalization and capitalism.

a Christian ethic of economic globalization

Just capitalism

Discussions and debates over the medical use of stem cells and cloning have always had a religious component. But there are many different religious voices. Contributors reflect the spectrum of Christian responses, from liberal Protestant to evangelical to Roman Catholic as well as Jewish perspectives. In addition to the deliberations found here, God and the Embryo includes a series of official statements on the issues from religious bodies. "Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry," from the statement of the President's Council on Bioethics, concludes the book. The disputations will continue, but for anyone interested in the nuances of and religious perspectives that make their important contributions to these ethically challenging and important dialectics, God and the Embryo is an invaluable resource.

Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning

God and the Embryo

Kobbi Nissim

The three-volume set LNCS 13042, LNCS 13043 and LNCS 13044 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2021, held in Raleigh, NC, USA, in November 2021. The total of 66 full papers presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. They cover topics on proof systems, attribute-based and functional encryption, obfuscation, key management and secure communication.

19th International Conference, TCC 2021, Raleigh, NC, USA, November 8–11, 2021, Proceedings, Part III

Theory of Cryptography

Ronald Cole-Turner

Discussions and debates over the medical use of stem cells and cloning have always had a religious component. But there are many different religious voices. This anthology on how religious perspectives can inform the difficult issues of stem cell research and human cloning is essential to the discussion. Contributors reflect the spectrum of Christian responses, from liberal Protestant to evangelical to Roman Catholic. The noted moral philosopher, Laurie Zoloth, offers a Jewish approach to cloning, and Sondra Wheeler contributes her perspective on both Jewish and Christian understandings of embryonic stem cell research. In addition to the discussions found here, God and the Embryo includes a series of official statements on stem cell research and cloning from religious bodies, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church in America, the United Methodist Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinical Council of America. "Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry," from the statement of the President's Council on Bioethics, concludes the book. The debates and the discussions will continue, but for anyone interested in the nuances of religious perspectives that make their important contributions to these ethically challenging and important dialectics, God and the Embryo is an invaluable resource.

F. LeRon Shults

This book brings together leading theologians and ethicists to explore the neglected relationship between Christology and ethics. The contributors to this volume work to overcome the tendency toward disciplinary xenophobia, considering such questions as What is the relation between faithful teaching about the reality of Christ and teaching faithfulness to the way of Christ? and How is christological doctrine related to theological judgments about normative human agency? With renewed attention and creative reformulation, they argue, we can discover fresh ways of tending to these perennial questions.

Christology and Ethics

Technology is one of the dominant forces shaping the emerging postmodern world. Indeed the very fabric of daily life is dependent upon various information, communication, and transportation technologies. With anticipated advances in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics, that dependence will increase. Yet this growing dependence is accompanied with a deep ambivalence. For many technology symbolises the faith of the postmodern world, but it is an ambivalent faith encapsulating both our hopes and fears for the future. This book examines the religious foundations underlying this troubled faith in technology, as well as critically and constructively engaging particular technological developments from a theological perspective.

Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World

From Human to Posthuman

We are living in an emerging technoculture. Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values, and offers a framework for how Christian moral theology should be formed and lived-out within the emerging technoculture. Brent Waters argues that technology represents the principal cultural background against which contemporary Christian moral life is formed. Addressing contemporary ethical and religious issues, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars exploring the ideas of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Grant, Arendt, and Borgmann.

From Posthuman Back to Human

Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture

19th International Conference, TCC 2021, Raleigh, NC, USA, November 8–11, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

Hovav Shacham

Pairing 2009, the Third International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptog- phy, was held at Stanford University in Palo Alto during August 12–14, 2009. The conference was sponsored by Voltage Security and Microsoft Corporation. TerenceSpiesservedasGeneralChairoftheConferenceandwehadtheprivilege of serving as Program Co-chairs. Theconferencereceived38submissions.Thesewerereviewedby a committee of23members.Thecommitteehadathree-weekindividualreviewphasefollowed by three weeks of discussion. After careful deliberation, the committee chose 16 papers for the Pairing 2009 conference. Detailed reviews were given to the authors, and the authors were given three weeks to submit the ?nal version. These ?nal versions were not subject to external review and the authors bear full responsibility for their contents. We are delighted to have had three invited speakers for Pairing 2009. Victor Miller spoke on the origins of pairing-based cryptography. His talk was comp- mented by Tanja Lange's, who coveredthe evolution of the mathematics behind pairings and shared recent results. Finally, Amit Sahai spoke on his work (with Jens Groth and Ra? Ostrovksy) realizing non-interactive zero knowledge proofs from pairings. This work has been highly in?uential and multiple papers - cepted at this conference built upon it. In addition, there was a “Hot Topics” session at this conference where we asked several researchers to give 10-minute presentations of recent results.

Third International Conference Palo Alto, CA, USA, August 12-14, 2009 Proceedings

Pairing-Based Cryptography - Pairing 2009

In this volume the author critically examines and assesses the influence of technology on the formation of contemporary culture from the standpoint of Christian theological ethics.

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