Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace (Christian Worldview Integration Series)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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:
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.
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- Contains compelling arguments for a fresh vision of business as transformational service for the common good
- Includes a real-world problems that engages readers and then respectfully provides differing perspectives on the issue
- Features a welcome mix of contemporary research and practice, and biblical ideas that have been helpfully grounded in their historical socioeconomic context
- Your Work Is an Altar
- The Shape of a Calling to Business
- Business and Spiritual Formation
- Wealth, Success and Ambition
- The Calling of Business in the Global Economy
- Ethics in the Workplace
- Leadership and Management: Serving Employees
- Marketing: Serving Customers
- Stewardship and Sustainability: Serving The Garden and Our Neighbors
- Emerging Directions in Business
Kenman Wong and Scott Rae have again joined forces to compile a veritable treasure-trove for anyone wishing to make fruitful connections between business and Christianity. They present compelling arguments for a fresh vision of business as transformational service for the common good. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on the shape of a calling, marketing and emerging directions in business.
—Dr. Richard Higginson, lecturer in Christian ethics and director of Faith in Business, Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambridge University
Christians in secular businesses and students heading in that direction will be better equipped to glorify God by taking to heart this book?s portrayal of business as transformational service for the common good. Christians new to thinking theologically about business will receive a cogent primer on first principles while those who have been pondering faith and business for some time will learn from chapters that tackle more complicated subjects such as marketing and environmental sustainability. I am especially pleased to see the authors? biblical support for ideas that challenge conventional evangelical Christian thinking about business--from the idea that business has positive and not just negative effects on spiritual formation to the idea that the need for transformation is both personal and institutional.
—Stephen N. Bretsen, Volkman Associate Professor of Business and Law, Wheaton College
Is business a legitimate arena in which Christians might work out their calling? Wong and Rae answer that question clearly, neither simplifying the message of Scripture nor avoiding the messy complexities of the business world. This is a book without answers or checklists. Rather, it asks readers to own the questions at the heart of business, to develop guidelines for action, to create boundaries within which individual and corporate transformation and service can flourish. This is a book to be read by students pondering a call to serve, by pastors tempted to dismiss business as institutionalized greed, and by business men and women seeking to follow Jesus. Business for the Common Good is informative, challenging and hopeful.
—Walter C. Wright Jr., executive director, Max De Pree Center for Leadership