PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace be 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 the 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Scott B. Rae (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is the author of Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics and (with J. P. Moreland) Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. Together Rae and Wong have edited Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics.

Kenman L. Wong (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is professor of business ethics at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Title: Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace

By: Kenman L. Wong, Scott B. Rae

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 280

Vendor: IVP Academic

Publication Date: 2011

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)

Weight: 14 ounces

ISBN: 0830828168

ISBN-13: 9780830828166