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At each step of the way, the churches' work on globalization, economics and trade has been informed by worship and theological reflection. Below, please find a selection of theological presentations that have been made:

Clodomiro L. Siller A.
Theology of the Economy
Notes for presentation made at the Just Trade post-consultation meeting, Mexico City, April 1, 2004, in Spanish.

Douglas M. Meeks
The Economy of Grace and the Market Logic
This paper contains some of the themes Dr. Meeks developed in his January 2004 Stony Point consultation addresses and are also found in his book, "God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy" Minneapolis: Fortress Press, which can be ordered from: http://fortresspress.com/store/index.asp. Other ideas in the lectures are in the book he hopes to finish in the spring of 2004 tentatively titled: "Spreading the Lord's Table: The Church in the Global Market Economy."

Brian Walsh
Canadian Theological Presentation
Comments Brian made at the pre-consultation on October 1, 2003 were based on a manuscript written with Sylvia Keesmaat. Brian looked specifically at Col. 1.15-20 and 3.10-17. The question that was asked at the end was, if Colossians is subversive of empire and offers an ethic that is alternative to empire, and if that ethic has political and ecological implications something like he suggests in these notes, then what are the implications of this text for our engagement with globalization and trade agreements?

Lee Cormie
Ethics of Globalization
This paper probes both the shifting contours of the debates and struggles over globalization(s), and the impacts of the shifting contours of globalization(s) on ethics. Specifically, it outlines one very influential pole in the debates and struggles over globalization, the "Washington consensus" as some of its architects call it, or "neoliberal globalization" or "corporate power" or "capitalist globalization" as its critics refer to it; an increasingly visible second pole in global debates and struggles, the "anti-globalization" or "global social justice" movements; the spreading processes of discernment and dialogue and growing volume of church statements concerning "globalization" or some aspect of it, like debt cancellation or free trade proposals; and some ways debates about and struggles over globalization are globalizing ethics.