Brent Waters

Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Director of Stead Center for Ethics and Values, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dr. Brent Waters is the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics, and Director of the Jerre L. and Mary Joy Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of Just Capitalism: A Christian Ethic of Globalization and Christian Moral Theology in an Emerging Technoculture, among many other writings on the relationship across theology, ethics, and technology. Waters’ primary research interests are in the areas of Christian social and political thought, bioethics, science, and technology.

Waters has served previously as the Director of the Center for Business, Religion and Public Life at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is ordained for Christian ministry in the United Church of Christ and is a graduate of the University of Redlands (BA), School of Theology at Claremont (MDiv, DMin), and the University of Oxford (DPhil).

Read Brent Waters’ latest essay, On Being Human and Humane.

See a playlist of videos of Brent Walters on human flourishing in a technological world.