The world confronts an enormous range of challenges in the global economy. A far-reaching enterprise has arisen to meet these challenges by producing laws and regulations to shape and protect global commercial and financial markets. This article considers how a Christian theology can guide the highly consequential processes of creating law for world commerce. First, from the perspective of the sociology of globalization, law and markets, the article describes findings from current research on who makes global law and how they make that law in the United Nations’ principal body for the creation of private international law. Second, the article proposes that public theology offers Christian theological principles and middle level axioms to deepen and extend the dimensionality of global lawmaking, thereby offering ethical guidance for prospective global lawmaking. It sharpens focus by appraising the participation and creativity of weak actors in global lawmaking. Third, the article turns to praxis for weak actors in global lawmaking and concludes with considerations that may foster mutually productive dialog between social scientists and public theologians of the global.

世界在全球经济中面临着各种各样的挑战。已经出现了影响深远的企业，他们通过制定法律法规来塑造和保护全球商业和金融市场来应对这些挑战。本文考虑了基督教神学如何指导高度后果的为世界商业制定法律的过程。首先，从全球化，法律和市场的社会学角度，文章描述了当前研究的结果，这些研究涉及谁制定全球法律以及他们如何在联合国创立国际私法的主要机构中制定全球法律。其次，本文建议公共神学提供基督教神学原理和中层公理，以加深和扩展全球立法的范围，从而为未来的全球立法提供道德指导。它通过评估弱势参与者在全球立法中的参与和创造力来加强关注。第三，本文着眼于全球立法中薄弱的参与者，并以可能促进社会科学家与全球公共神学家之间相互产生对话的考虑作为结论。