Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others?
Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:
– What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement?
– What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced ‘as is’ and what parts need to be rejected or transformed?
– What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures?
– How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability?Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good.
The Christian Worldview Integration Series, edited by J. P. Moreland and Francis J. Beckwith, seeks to promote a robust personal and conceptual integration of Christian faith and learning, with textbooks focused on disciplines such as education, psychology, literature, politics, science, communications, biology, philosophy, and history.
Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:
– What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement?
– What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced ‘as is’ and what parts need to be rejected or transformed?
– What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures?
– How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability?Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good.
The Christian Worldview Integration Series, edited by J. P. Moreland and Francis J. Beckwith, seeks to promote a robust personal and conceptual integration of Christian faith and learning, with textbooks focused on disciplines such as education, psychology, literature, politics, science, communications, biology, philosophy, and history.
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Table of Content
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Your Work Is an Altar
2 The Shape of a Calling to Business
3 Business and Spiritual Formation
4 Wealth, Success and Ambition
5 The Calling of Business in the Global Economy
6 Cheats, Challenges and Shortcuts: Ethics in the Workplace
7 Serving Employees Through Leadership and Management
8 Marketing: Transformational Service and Customers
9 Restoring and Serving the Garden: Stewardship and Sustainability
10 Emerging Directions in Business
Conclusion
About the author
Scott B. Rae (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is professor of biblical studies and Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is also the author of Embryo Research and Experimentation (Crossroads) and Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies (Baker).
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9780830868414 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Publisher IVP Academic ● City Westmont ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5848891 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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