ABRAHAM
KUYPER
Edited by Peter S. Heslam
Acton Institute
for the study of religion and liberty
On Business & Economics
Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology
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ABRAHAM
KUYPER
Collected Works in Public Theology
general editors
JORDAN J. BALLOR
MELVIN FLIKKEMA
Editor’s Introduction: Calvinism in Business—an Enlightened Enterprise?
Volume Introduction: Abraham Kuyper and the Economic Teachings of the Heidelberg Catechism
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
The Social Question and the Christian Religion
Draft Pension Scheme for Wage Earners
Social Organizations under Our Own Banner
Appendix: Common Grace and Commerce
About Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)
In the hyperpaced, global marketplace of the twenty-first century, what can be gained from the writings of a theologian-philosopher who seems preoccupied with critiquing the French Revolution of 1789? And given the sophisticated tools of modern economic analysis, why should anybody care about this theologian-philosopher’s analysis of labor unions, government subsidies, and pensions in the Netherlands over a century ago?
One reason is that this theologian-philosopher, Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920), understood the underlying dynamics of today’s global economy better than almost all of today’s leading academics, analysts, and marketplace leaders. In fact, over a century ago, Kuyper forecast one of the central paradoxes of contemporary economic and social life.
On the one hand, the spread of capitalist narratives, institutions, and practices from “the West to the rest” has resulted in unprecedented increases in income and in other dimensions of human and cultural flourishing. Particularly encouraging has been the impact on poverty.1 Indeed, ...
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About On Business & EconomicsKuyper on the Positive Potential of Business. In his vast treasury of writings, Abraham Kuyper addressed nearly every sphere of society, including politics, science, and the arts. But his views on business and economics are often overlooked because he rarely engaged with that sphere directly. Still, his doctrine of common grace has great significance for showing how Christ is at work in the workplace. In this anthology of essays, speeches, and reflections, we see Kuyper’s attempts to think positively and creatively about the calling 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. |
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