A Biblical Perspective on Transforming Global Markets
Sunday, October 19, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
Location: Hunter College West Building, Room 506 (fifth floor in same building as the muffins)
Time: 12:00-1:15PM (after the East Side AM Redeemer Service)
Join us for a talk with Dr. Peter Heslam--theologian, economist, and scholar--as he shares insights on the interaction between Biblical concepts, globalization, and capital markets in this time of crisis and turmoil. A Pizza lunch will be available for a small donation.
Dr Peter Heslam is director of Transforming Business, a research project in the University of Cambridge on enterprise solutions to poverty. Though based in the Faculty of Divinity, where Peter is CARTS Fellow, it has close links to the University's Judge Business School. Peter is also a Senior Member of Trinity College, Cambridge, an Honorary Research Fellow of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) and an Associate Tutor of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He lectures on ethics and postmodernism in the Cambridge Theological Federation, in which he was formerly Director of Studies. Before becoming Director of Transforming Business, Peter was Director of the Capitalism Project and Lecturer in Social and Economic Ethics at LICC. Peter holds degrees in social science, and in theology from Oxford and Cambridge. He has published widely in scholarly journals. His book on the great theologian, politician and social philosopher Abraham Kuyper is entitled Creating a Christian Worldview (Eerdmans 1998). His writings on capitalism and globalization include Globalization: Unravelling the New Capitalism (Grove) and the edited volume Globalization and the Good (SPCK). The website of Transforming Business is at http://www.transformingbusiness.net.
