Podcast appearances and mentions of william schweiker

Ross Douthat delivered these remarks on January 17, 2018 at the University of Chicago. Geoffrey Stone, Laurie Zoloth, William Schweiker, and William Cavanaugh responded. Willemien Otten moderated. To view the video of the exchange visit www.lumenchristi.org/events/970.

This multi-disciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars who will share their research and engage in conversation about the role of religion in addressing rising income inequality—an issue that impacts millions of people. During the 1960s and 1970s, 9-10% of total income went to the top one-percent of Americans. By 2007, this share had risen to 23.5%. Even before 2008 and the so-called Great Recession, the wages of the average worker in the U.S., adjusted for inflation, had been stagnant for three decades. How are the religions contributing to the complex mix of factors responsible for this state of affairs? Part 3 includes a presentation by William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, the University of Chicago Divinity School. William Schweiker's research focuses on theological and ethical questions attentive to global dynamics, comparative religious ethics, the history of ethics, and hermeneutical philosophy. A frequent lecturer and visiting professor at universities around the world, he has been deeply involved in collaborative international scholarly projects. In addition to his position at the Divinity School, Schweiker is Director of The Enhancing Life Project, a two-year project dedicated to increasing knowledge in support of the aspiration by persons and communities for enriched lives. Schweiker's books include Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds (2004). He is also chief editor and contributor to A Companion to Religious Ethics (2004). He is working on a forthcoming book Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method and a second expanded edition of A Companion to Religious Ethics Sponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. William Schweiker (University of Chicago) on “The Saint and the Humanities.”

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. William Schweiker (University of Chicago) on “The Saint and the Humanities.”

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. William Schweiker and Günter Thomas, co-leaders of The Enhancing Life Project, discuss this new initiative, aimed at exploring what moves persons and communities into a creative and dynamic future that will enhance the flourishing of life, human and non-human. The Project is a collaboration between The University of Chicago and Ruhr-University Bochum / Germany, and is supported with a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. William Schweiker and Günter Thomas, co-leaders of The Enhancing Life Project, discuss this new initiative, aimed at exploring what moves persons and communities into a creative and dynamic future that will enhance the flourishing of life, human and non-human. The Project is a collaboration between The University of Chicago and Ruhr-University Bochum / Germany, and is supported with a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Enhancing Life Project team will speak on this three-year grant project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The project will draw together 35 international scholars to address the profound expansion of human power through technology, as well as advances in genetics, ecology, and other fields that impact both the vulnerability and the enhancement of life. William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, will be joined by his two colleagues from Bochum University colleague Günter Thomas. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Enhancing Life Project team will speak on this three-year grant project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The project will draw together 35 international scholars to address the profound expansion of human power through technology, as well as advances in genetics, ecology, and other fields that impact both the vulnerability and the enhancement of life. William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, will be joined by his two colleagues from Bochum University colleague Günter Thomas. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. “God: Theological Accounts and Ethical Possibilities.” A conference at the University of Chicago Divinity School. William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Martin Marty Center, on “God and the Human Good” (session 4). Questions about the relationship between God and the good and the right remain as urgent today as they did in ancient times. For example, what is the relationship between claims about the nature or character of God and the moral actions motivated by those claims? What is the relationship between moral codes underwritten by claims about God and the ethics espoused by the (ideally agnostic) civic sphere? Are beliefs about God open to moral critique by others who espouse different beliefs or no beliefs at all? Today answers to these questions must take into account factors such as cultural and religious pluralism, hybrid theologies that incorporate teachings and beliefs from a variety of religious traditions, and religiously motivated violence around the world. This conference invites philosophers, theologians and religious ethicists to offer accounts of God relevant to the current state of affairs in the West while taking seriously the possibility of a relationship between God and ethics. This conference was supported by grants from the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, the University of Chicago Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the University of Chicago Center for International Studies, and the Aronberg Fund of the University of Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. “God: Theological Accounts and Ethical Possibilities.” A conference at the University of Chicago Divinity School. William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Martin Marty Center, on “God and the Human Good” (session 4). Questions about the relationship between God and the good and the right remain as urgent today as they did in ancient times. For example, what is the relationship between claims about the nature or character of God and the moral actions motivated by those claims? What is the relationship between moral codes underwritten by claims about God and the ethics espoused by the (ideally agnostic) civic sphere? Are beliefs about God open to moral critique by others who espouse different beliefs or no beliefs at all? Today answers to these questions must take into account factors such as cultural and religious pluralism, hybrid theologies that incorporate teachings and beliefs from a variety of religious traditions, and religiously motivated violence around the world. This conference invites philosophers, theologians and religious ethicists to offer accounts of God relevant to the current state of affairs in the West while taking seriously the possibility of a relationship between God and ethics. This conference was supported by grants from the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, the University of Chicago Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the University of Chicago Center for International Studies, and the Aronberg Fund of the University of Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Should scientists consider how their discoveries might be misused? Are scientists too controlled by their funders? What responsibility do scientists have toward the public? Meeting at the elegant Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple in Oak Park, theologians, theoretical physicists and transplant physicians pondered such questions at the Nov. 10 “Ethics in Science,” the second in a series of joint speaker events that bring together faculty from the University of Chicago and scientists, researchers and engineers from Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Speakers include Piermaria J. Oddone, William Schweiker, Philip Hefner, J. Michael Millis, MD, Chris Quigg, and Pam Sydelko.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Should scientists consider how their discoveries might be misused? Are scientists too controlled by their funders? What responsibility do scientists have toward the public? Meeting at the elegant Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple in Oak Park, theologians, theoretical physicists and transplant physicians pondered such questions at the Nov. 10 “Ethics in Science,” the second in a series of joint speaker events that bring together faculty from the University of Chicago and scientists, researchers and engineers from Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Speakers include: Piermaria J. Oddone, William Schweiker, Philip Hefner, J. Michael Millis, MD, Chris Quigg, and Pam Sydelko.