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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795362903321

Autore

Kuyper Abraham

Titolo

On business & economics / / Abraham Kuyper ; edited by Peter S. Heslam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bellingham, WA : , : Lexham Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-68359-450-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages)

Collana

Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology

Disciplina

261.85

Soggetti

Business - Religious aspects - Reformed Church

Economics - Religious aspects - Reformed Church

Business ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forewords -- Editor's Introduction: Calvinism in Business-An Enlightened Enterprise?: Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace, and the Potential of Business (Peter S. Heslam) -- Introduction -- Common Grace at Work -- Particular Grace at Work -- Money as a Social Blessing -- Business as a Calling -- Business and Leadership -- Volume Introduction: Abraham Kuyper and the Economic Teachings of the Heidelberg Catechism: Abraham Kuyper and the Economic Teachings of the Heidelberg Catechism (Jordan J. Ballor) -- Introduction -- Superabundance and the Origins of Economics -- Temporal and Spiritual Goods -- The Divine Source of All Good Gifts -- Sin and Scarcity -- Stewardship and the Essence of Economics -- Property Rights -- Stewardship Responsibilities -- Faithful Labor and Entrepreneurship -- Sabbath and the Goal of Economics -- Rest from Evil -- Rest in God -- Sabbath Work -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread -- Text Introduction -- Commentary on Lord's Day 50 of the Heidelberg Catechism -- You Shall Not Steal -- Text Introduction -- Commentary on Lord's Day 42 of the Heidelberg Catechism -- Remember the Sabbath Day -- Text Introduction -- Commentary on Lord's Day 38 of the Heidelberg Catechism -- Working People and the Church -- Text Introduction -- Working People and the Church -- Sunday Rest and



Hygiene -- Text Introduction -- Sunday Rest and Hygiene -- Manual Labor -- Text Introduction -- Manual Labor -- I. The Foundations of the Building -- II. Economic and Political Influences -- III. The Government's Jurisdiction -- IV. The Old Guilds -- V. Chambers of Labor -- VI. Church, School, and Police -- VII. Inquest or Organization? -- The Social Question and the Christian Religion -- Text Introduction -- The Social Question and the Christian Religion.

I. Facing the Reality of Poverty -- We Have Been Too Slow to Act -- The Connection between Christianity and the Problem of Poverty -- Human Error and Sin -- II. Jesus and the Social Question -- Jesus: More than a Social Reformer -- By Personal Example -- Organizing the Church -- III. The Socialist Challenge -- Social Distress -- Social Democracy -- The Social Question -- Socialism Is No Temporary Fad -- The Unity and Diversity of Socialism -- IV. A Christian Approach to the Problem of Poverty -- Response to Socialism -- Spiritual and Social Problems -- The Power and Clarity of God's Word -- A Balanced Perspective -- Time for Action -- Draft Pension Scheme for Wage Earners -- Text Introduction -- Draft Pension Scheme for Wage Earners -- Protectionism and Materialism -- Text Introduction -- Protectionism and Materialism -- Extracts from Varia Americana -- Human Trafficking -- Text Introduction -- Human Trafficking -- Social Organizations under Our Own Banner -- Text Introduction -- Social Organizations under Our Own Banner -- Employer Organizations -- Group Representation -- Feeding the Nation's Workers -- Text Introduction -- Feeding the Nation's Workers -- The Social Question (1909) -- Text Introduction -- The Social Question (1909) -- Industrial Organization -- Text Introduction -- Industrial Organization -- The Sacred Order -- Text Introduction -- The Sacred Order -- The Social Question (1917) -- Text Introduction -- The Social Question (1917) -- Then and Now -- Anxious Feelings -- Toward Collaboration -- Holy Scripture -- Overcoming Class Difference -- Marxism Watered Down -- Public Services -- No Support in Scripture -- Guilds Have Outlived Themselves -- New Demands -- Employers Hesitate -- Organization Is a Must -- Difficulties -- Organizing Apart -- Peculiar Difficulties -- The Task of Government -- Speech in Parliament -- Our Starting Point.

A Coherent Plan -- A Well-Regulated Body -- Unemployment -- Excess Population -- How to Intercept Unemployment -- Wages -- Alleviation -- Minimal Requirements -- Cooperation a Must -- A Living Wage -- Strikes -- Countermeasures by Employers -- Boycotts -- Sabotage -- Trade Unions -- Picketing -- Working Hours -- The Cooperative Worker -- Time Off -- Requisite Legislation -- Night Work -- Anarchy -- Conclusion -- What Next? -- Text Introduction -- What Next? -- Opening Address at the Meeting of Deputies of the Antirevolutionary Party, Utrecht, May 2, 1918 -- Meditations -- Text Introduction -- Meditations -- Do Not Withhold Good from Those to Whom It Is Due -- Money Is the Answer for Everything -- Woe to Those Who Join House to House -- Woe to Those Who Rise Early in the Morning -- Lovers of Money -- Leftover Fragments -- Do Not Work for the Food that Perishes -- Income and Expenditure -- The Love of Money Is a Root of All Kinds of Evils -- Appendix: Common Grace and Commerce -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- About Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) -- About the Contributors -- Subject Index -- Scripture Index -- Old Testament -- New Testament.

Sommario/riassunto

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.