Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic

Myriam Renaud is Director and Principal Investigator of the Global Ethic Project at the Parliament of the World's Religions. She led the Parliament's effort to expand the Global Ethic with a 5th Directive elaborating a commitment to a culture of sustainability and care for the Earth. Her scholarship focuses on the concept of God, constructive philosophical theology, comparative theology, global ethics, and religion in the public square. She co-edited and contributed to the collection of essays, God and the Moral Life (Routledge, 2018), and she is completing a monograph, Toward a Moral God and a Humanizing Theology.William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.?His scholarship focuses on theological and ethical questions related to global dynamics, comparative religious ethics, history of ethics, and hermeneutical philosophy. The author of?several books, his most recent (with David Clairmont) is?Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method?(Wiley Blackwell, 2020).?He is editor and contributor to the three-volume Encyclopedia?of Religious Ethics (forthcoming) and he is currently working on a book entitled?Enhancing?Life and the Forms of Freedom.