Thinking Theologically About Entrepreneurship: Why Does It Matter?

This session will consider how to think theologically about entrepreneurship, reading the Bible accurately about economic life in general and entrepreneurship in particular.

Recommended Readings

Baker, Bruce, “Entrepreneurship as a Sign of Common Grace,” Journal of Markets & Morality 18:1 (2015): 81-98. https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/works/34/

Ballor, Jordan, and Victor Claar, “The Soul of the Entrepreneur: A Christian Anthropology of Creativity, Innovation and Liberty,” Journal of Ethics and Entrepreneurship (Spring 2016): 117-131. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2749195

Clark, Catherine, and Christian Harrison article, “Entrepreneurship: An assimilated multi-perspective review,” Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (2018), 6-29.

Gregg, Samuel, “Entrepreneurship isn’t enough,” Acton.org (May 13, 2009). https://acton.org/pub/commentary/2009/05/13/entrepreneurship-isn%E2%80%99t-enough

Handy, Charles, “What’s a Business For?, Harvard Business Review, December 2002:49-55.

Pearcy, Anthony, Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition (Lexington Books, 2010). 

Willard, Dallas, “The Business of Business,” Renovare, https://renovare.org/articles/the-business-of-business