Finding Meaning in Business

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Business and Calling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Giving Meaning to Work: The Spiritual Challenge of Our Time

      • Ingeborg Gabriel

      Pages 3-11

   3. Reclaiming the Concept of Calling

      • Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten

      Pages 13-19

   4. The Entrepreneurial Vocation: Is Creating Wealth a Calling?

      • Georges Enderle

      Pages 21-31

   5. The Evolution of Business as a Christian Calling

      • Gary L. Chamberlain

      Pages 33-56

3. Fostering a Community of Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Toward a Theology of Business

      • Denise Daniels

      Pages 59-75

   3. Fusion, Fission, or Vision: One Calling, Three Metaphors

      • John Sherrington, John Strain

      Pages 77-96

   4. The Enterprise as Community of Persons: The Case of Bimbo Group

      • Patricia Debeljuh

      Pages 97-119

4. Formation of Business Leaders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Questions Organizational Leaders Pose to Theologians

      • André L. Delbecq

      Pages 123-129

   3. Roman Catholic and Protestant Perspectives on Business as a Calling: Managerial Leadership in the Corporate Sphere

      • Shirley Roels, Regina Wentzel Wolfe

      Pages 131-159

   4. Toward an Experience Training: A Perspective from Lonergan

      • María Soledad Martínez Kasten

      Pages 161-172

   5. Pedagogical Models and Practice

      • Jack Ruhe, Ron Nahser

      Pages 173-200

5. Back Matter

   Pages 201-211

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Combining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole.

• entrepreneur
• ethics
• leadership
• merger
• theology

'The strength of Finding Meaning in Business lies in its ability to renew the topicality of this ancient conflict between business and Christian faith in times of the world financial crisis, which has been caused by widespread fraud, control fraud, and systematic corruption.' Sebastian Berger, Dickinson College

GARY L. CHAMBERLAIN Professor of Christian Ethics, Department of Theology, Seattle University, USA DENISE DANIELS Associate Dean, School of Business & Economics, Seattle Pacific University, USA ANDRÉ L. DELBECQ Thomas A. and Kathleen L. McCarthy University Professor, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA,Eighth Dean of Fellows of the Academy of Management, prior President, Western Academy of Management, and former Executive Director, Organization Behavior Teaching Society JUAN L. HINOJOSA former Executive Director, Hillenbrand Institute/University of St. Mary of the Lake, and Executive Director/Founder, Solidarity Bridge HANS DIRK VAN HOOGSTRATEN Lecturer at the Catholic University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands RICHARD M. LIDDY Lecturer, Seton Hall University, USA JOHN LUNN Robert W. Haack Professor of Economics, Hope College, USA H. OPDEBEECK Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium OSVALDO M. FERREIRO POCH Chairman of the Undergraduate Program and Professor, Departmentof Economics and Management, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Jesuist University of Chile JOHN SHERRINGTON Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster, former pastor of the parish of The Good Shepherd, Arnold, Nottingham, President, Diocesan Commission for Marriage and Family Life, and a Consulter, the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales WILLIAM J. TOTH Lecturer, Seton Hall University, USA JOHAN VERSTRAETEN Professor of Theology, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, and Chairman, European Ethics Network LOUIS XAVIER Senior Professor of Management, St. Joseph's College, Trichy, India, and director, Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Loyola College, Chennai India.

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