Rate My Professor Scott Paeth

Scott Paeth serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University, where he began teaching in 2004. Within the Theology faculty, his scholarship focuses on Christian Ethics and Public Theology, including business ethics, bioethics, and the ethics of war and peace. He holds a Ph.D. in Theology and Ethics from Princeton Theological Seminary. Paeth is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles. Key publications include The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians (Westminster John Knox Press, 2013), 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 Jurgen 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: An Anthology (Sheed & Ward, 2006), and The Local Church in a Global Era: Reflections for a New Century (Eerdmans, 2000). Recent works feature chapters such as "Theology of Culture as Public Theology: Paul Tillich and the Social Ethics of Religious Experience" in The Political Theology of Paul Tillich (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2024) and "This Present Darkness: War and the Doctrine of Creation" in T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2024). He is currently developing a book entitled Christianity and the Economic Crisis.