The “Real World” of Business

When I completed my doctorate in systematic theology at Boston College in 1991, I fully intended to spend the next few decades of my life teaching courses in that field in a university setting. As it turned out, the years I spent in graduate school prepared me for a somewhat different future. At its...

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Published inIn Search of the Whole p. 85
Main Author J. Michael Stebbins
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Georgetown University Press 30.09.2011
Subjects
Business
Business economics
Business ethics
Businesspeople
Christian ethics
Christian philosophy
Christianity
Economic disciplines
Economic theory
Economics
Employment
Labor economics
Macroeconomics
Occupations
Political ethics
Political science
Politics
Religion
Spiritual belief systems
Systematic theology
Theology
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Summary:When I completed my doctorate in systematic theology at Boston College in 1991, I fully intended to spend the next few decades of my life teaching courses in that field in a university setting. As it turned out, the years I spent in graduate school prepared me for a somewhat different future. At its root systematic theology is the effort to produce a fully integrated Christian worldview. It is carried out from the perspective of faith (in Anselm of Canterbury’s famous twelfth-century formulation theology is found fides quaerens intellectum, “faith seeking understanding”). Systematic theology takes as given the truth of
ISBN:1589017811
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