Finding Meaning in Business Theology, Ethics, and Vocation [Paperback]

Combining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole.Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: BUSINESS AND CALLING Giving Meaning to Work: The Spiritual Challenge of Our Time Ingeborg Gabriel Reclaiming the Concept of Calling Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten The Entrepreneurial Vocation: Is Creating Wealth a Calling? Georges Enderle The Evolution of Business as a Christian Calling Gary L. Chamberlain PART TWO: FOSTERING A COMMUNITY OF WORK Toward a Theology of Business Denise Daniels Fusion, Fission, or Vision: One Calling, Three Metaphors John Strain and John Sherrington The Enterprise as Community of Persons: The Case of Bimbo Group Patricia Debeljuh PART THREE: FORMATION OF BUSINESS LEADERS Questions Organizational Leaders Pose to Theologians Andr? Delbecq Roman Catholic and Protestant Perspectives on Business as a Calling: Managerial Leadership in the Corporate Sphere Shirley Roels and Regina Wentzel Wolfe Toward an Experience Training: A Perspective from Lonergan Mar?a Soledad Mart?nez Kasten, translated by Bartholomew C. Okonkwo Pedagogical Models and Practice Jack Ruhe and Ron Nahser Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

'The strength of Finding Meaning in Business lies in its ability to renew the topicality of this ancient conflict between business and Christian faith in times of the world financial crisis, which has been caused by widespread fraud, control fraud, and systematic corruption.' Sebastian Berger, Dickinson College

GARY L. CHAMBERLAIN Professor of Christian Ethics, Department of Theology, Seattle University, USA DENISE DANIELS Associate Dean, School of Business & Economics, Seattle Pacific University, USA ANDR? L. DELBECQ Thomas A. and Kathlcy