Koinonia: Communicating the Goods of Creation

by Brent Waters, Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Note: This article spotlights the work of Brent Waters, who has been named an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is an excerpt from his recent landmark book, Just Capitalism: A Christian Ethic of Economic Globalization. The thesis of this chapter...

Spotlight: Western Seminary

by Josh Mathews, assistant professor of biblical studies and Ron Mars, professor of youth and pastoral ministry

At Western Seminary we are invested in training Christians to be catalysts for whole-life discipleship and fruitful engagement in culture and communities in a variety of ways. At the core of our mission is our graduate-level seminary curriculum. We have been working...

Vanhoozer on “Learning Christ” at Karam Forum

by Oikonomia Network

Karam Forum 2017 opened with a rich, challenging lecture from Kevin Vanhoozer on “Learning Christ.” Vanhoozer argued that over the last two centuries, theological education has been structured according to implicitly secular understandings of academic knowledge....

Economics of Love at ETS, Human Flourishing at AAR

by Oikonomia Network

Heads up if you’re attending ETS in Providence or AAR in Boston this November! The ON will be serving up stimulating panels at both meetings. The Economics of Love at ETS Tom Nelson will discuss his transformative new book, The Economics of Neighborly Love, at...

Amy Sherman on Karam Forum Classroom Applications

by Oikonomia Network

Amy Sherman, senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute and director of the Center on Faith in Communities, gave a two-session presentation on “fresh pedagogies” for theological education at the inaugural Karam Forum. Most theological education follows the “sage on the...

Teaching Old Testament and New Testament – Women at Work

by ALISTAIR MACKENZIE, TEACHING FELLOW AT LAIDLAW COLLEGE, NEW ZEALAND, AND MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE THEOLOGY OF WORK PROJECT

Stories from, about and for women at work have not often been told as prominently as those of men in Christian contexts and discussions about work and economic life. Where to Start? One important starting point for Christians must be to take a fresh look at what the...

Forster on the Mission of Higher Education at Karam Forum

by Oikonomia Network

Karam Forum 2017 closed with Oikonomia Network Director Greg Forster’s inspiring call to renew the vision of Christian higher education serving God’s people and God’s world. Forster emphasized that the church’s crisis of discipleship and the world’s public crises have...

Faith, Work and Eschatology

by John W. Taylor, professor of New Testament and director of Graduate Studies, Gateway Seminary

Note: This article spotlights the work of John Taylor, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. One of the persistent tensions in Christian theology and practice has been between under-realized and over-realized eschatology, which could also be called...

New EWP Talk: All Good Work: Creation and Parenthood

by Oikonomia Network

Note: This article describes one of the ON’s Economic Wisdom Project Talks, designed to be used as class assignments. At the inaugural Karam Forum, Mark Roberts of Fuller Seminary spoke about the need to rethink what truly counts as good work. Resisting...

Sample Assignments across the Curriculum

by Jennifer Woodruff Tait is managing editor of Christian History, content editor for The High Calling at the Theology of Work Project, an Episcopal priest, an affiliate professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, and the author of The Poisoned Chalice.

Here are more sample assignments to help inspire fresh thinking about how to incorporate a concern for vocation, flourishing and economic justice across the curriculum. Biblical Studies Have students do an exegetical word study on one of the following words in New...

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