Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-410) and index.
Contents:
Afterword / Jan Pieter Balkenende. Foreword / Paul Oslington -- Foreword / Kenneth Barnes -- Appendix. Calvinism in business : an enlightened enterprise? Abraham Kuyper, common grace, and the potential of business / Peter S. Heslam -- Volume introduction. Abraham Kuyper and the economic teachings of the Heidelberg catechism / Jordan J. Ballor -- Give us this day our daily bread. Commentary on Lord's Day 50 of the Heidelberg catechism = Zondagsafdeeling L, in E voto Dordraceno : toelichting op den Heidelbergschen Catechismus -- You shall not steal. Commentary on Lord's Day 42 of the Heidelberg catechism = Zondagsafdeeling XLII, in E voto Dordraceno : toelichting op den Heidelbergschen Catechismus -- Remember the Sabbath day. Commentary on Lord's Day 38 of the Heidelberg catechism = Zondagsafdeeling XXXVIII, in E voto Dordraceno : toelichting op den Heidelbergschen Catechismus -- Working people and the church = Inleiding tot De arbeiderskwestie en de Kerk : een woord over het sociale vraagstuk -- Sunday rest and hygiene = Ons program, bijlage G ; De standaard, 21 and 24 July 1876 -- Manual labor = Handenarbeid -- The social question and the Christian religion = Het sociale vraagstuk en de christelijke religie : rede bij de opening van het Sociaal Congres op 9 november 1891 gehouden -- Draft pension scheme for wage earners = Proeve van pensioenregeling voor werklieden en huns gelijken -- Protectionism and materialism = Varia Americana [Selections] -- Human trafficking = Parlementaire redevoeringen, 2:614-15 -- Social organizations under our own banner = Sociale organisatie onder eigen banier -- Feeding the nation's workers = Den nationalen arbeid voeden, in Voor den slag -- The social question (1909) -- = Het sociale vraagstuk, in Voor den slag -- Industrial organization -- = Architectonische critiek [Selections], = De standaard, 6 February 1909, 23, 26, 28, 30 April 1910 -- The sacred order = Heilige order -- The social question (1917) = Antirevolutionaire staatkunde met nadere toelichting op ons program, 2:492-534 [Selections] -- What next? = Wat nu? -- Meditations = selectons from De heraut -- Appendix. Common grace and commerce : from Common grace, v.3, ch. 59 -- Afterword / Jan Pieter Balkenende.
Summary:
In this anthology of essays, speeches, and relections, we see Kuyper's attempts to think positively and creatively about th ecalling and potential of business. Included are his ideas about economic freedom, the eternal value of earthly work, stewardship and philanthropy, economic globalization, the workings of God's grace in business, and the social function of money. From dust jacket.
Series:
Collected works in public theology Kuyper, Abraham, 1837-1920. Collected works in public theology.
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