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Archives for February 2018

Join Us for the Faith at Work Summit

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The 2018 Faith at Work Summit, held in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare on October 11th-13th, is now open for registration! The early bird pricing for registration is now available at $179 per ticket, so be sure to purchase soon! The ON has been a leading co-host and sponsor of the summit from the beginning. We’re proud […]

New EWP Talk: Andy Crouch on Isaiah’s Posterity Gospel

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We’re very excited to release our latest EWP Talk: Andy Crouch’s brief but powerful address at Karam Forum 2018. Drawing on the imagery of Isaiah 5, Crouch spoke about the challenge of separating real flourishing from transitory prosperity in the midst of economic growth and technological innovation. In a world where we can have instant […]

Teaching Historical Theology: Perspectives on Calling

byGordon Preece, director, Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy, University of Divinity; director, Ethos; Australian Anglican pastor

Calling language has been pervasive in theology since at least Martin Luther. Sometimes we speak as if God only calls people away from ordinary secular work into church mission or ordained ministry. But does God also call some people to stay, and serve God in their current occupations? Many theological debates have centred on the […]

Brian Fikkert: The Church and Economics

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Getting richer is not making us happier. At the 2018 ON faculty retreat, Brian Fikkert of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development spoke to why that is, why it represents a radical challenge to the narratives that dominate the discipline of economics, and how the church can help people recover a holistic anthropology as a […]

Seminary Spotlight: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

byKenneth Magnuson, professor of Christian ethics

Southern Seminary’s Commonweal Project on Faith, Work and Human Flourishing recently completed our fourth year of initiatives designed to engage and equip faculty, students, pastors and ultimately churches with a biblical understanding of work and economic wisdom. It has been a good time to consider what we have done well, what we could do better […]

Person and Property in the Pentateuch

byDavid Baker, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Ashland Theological Seminary

Note: This article spotlights the work of David Baker, who has been named an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is adapted from his article “Are Business People the Bad Guys? Person and Property in the Pentateuch,” Southwestern Journal of Theology 59 (2017): 133–154. Some biblical scholars present a market economy, if not […]