Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson

Contributors

Contributors Contributors Phyllis D. Airhart is associate professor of the history of Christianity at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Her publications in the area of religion in Canada include Serving the Present Age: Revivalism, Progressivism, and the Methodist Tradition in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and a special issue of the Toronto Journal of Theology entitled Christianizing the Social Order: A Founding Vision of the United Church of Canada, which she co-edited with Roger Hutchinson. Gregory Baum is professor emeritus at the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal. He is editor of The Ecumenist and the author of several books, including Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others (CBC Massey Lectures), Essays in Critical Theology (Sheed and Ward), and Nationalism, Religion and Ethics (McGill-Queen’s University Press). David G. Hallman has served on the national staff of the United Church of Canada in a range of social justice portfolios for over twenty-five years, with a concentration on energy and environmental issues. Since 1994, he has also acted as the Climate Change Programme coordinator for the World Council of Churches. Hallman is the 257 author and editor of numerous books on environmental issues, including Ecotheology: Voice from South and North (World Council of Churches) and Spiritual Values for Earth Community (World Council of Churches). Cameron R. Harder is assistant professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Saskatoon. His recently completed Ph.D. thesis, “The Shame of Farm Bankruptcy: A Theological and Sociological Investigation of Its Effects on Rural Communities,” was directed by Roger Hutchinson. In addition to other writing in the field, he has been doing seminars and workshops across Canada on the church’s role in rural revitalization. C. Douglas Jay is former principal of and professor emeritus at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto, and founding director of the Toronto School of Theology. He works in the areas of Christian ethics, theological education, ecumenism, interfaith dialogue and missiology, and is the author of, for example, World Mission and World Civilization (Board of World Mission, United Church of Canada), as well as a number of articles and reports. Karen Krug is an associate professor in the environment program at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. As principal investigator in a project funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant, she is identifying strategies for building sustainable rural-urban agriculture in the Niagara region. Marilyn J. Legge is associate professor of Christian ethics at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Grace of Difference: A Canadian Feminist Theological Ethic (Scholars, Press), and the co-editor of Liberation Theology: An Introduction (Orbis Books). She contributes to various journals, networks and projects related to ecumenical and social justice ethics. Christopher Lind serves as president of St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon and St. Stephen’s College, Edmonton. He is the author of Something’s Wrong Somewhere: Globalization, Community and the Moral Economy of the Farm Crisis (Fernwood), and the co-editor with Joe Mihevc of Coalitions for Justice: The Story of Canada’s Interchurch Coalitions (Novalis). He is currently completing a manuscript with Maureen Muldoon entitled Ethical Challenges in Ministry. Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World 258 Ian Manson is an ordained minister presently serving at Immanuel United Church in Winnipeg. He holds a Th.D. in the history of Christianity from Victoria University, and is completing a history of the social gospel in the United Church of Canada. Joe Mihevc is an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Michael’s College, Faculty of Theology. His writing and teaching are in the area of social ethics and liberation theology. He is coeditor with Christopher Lind of Coalitions for Justice: The Story of Canada’s Interchurch Coalitions (Novalis). He also serves as a city councillor in Toronto. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and directs the Jewish Studies Program. His latest book, which has been awarded the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies category for 2000, is entitled Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory (Princeton University Press). Cranford Pratt is an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He co-edited, with...