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in The Bible In World Christian Perspective: Studies in Honor of Carl Edwin Armerding. eds. David... more in The Bible In World Christian Perspective: Studies in Honor of Carl Edwin Armerding. eds. David W. Baker and W. Ward Gasque, Vancouver, British Columbia: Regent College Publishing, 2009

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This study examines the model of faith-business integration developed at ServiceMaster, and relat... more This study examines the model of faith-business integration developed at ServiceMaster, and relatedly Bill Pollard’s role in developing and implementing it. My argument is that ServiceMaster’s celebrated 4 corporate goals functioned both as a mission statement defining the core of the business, but at the same time also as “philosophy of Christian ministry” infusing their core business with the Christian faith. As used, the 4 goals functioned as a faith-business integration model in its own right, deserving a place alongside other models and thereby deserving reflective analysis and evaluation. To that end, this study examines how the model came to be and how it functioned. Further, attention is drawn to how well within the model the two dimensions (Christian faith and business mission) coinhere under the real-world business pressures encountered at ServiceMaster. Particularly here the study will mention the strategic business choices made by Pollard’s predecessors, Pollard himself,...

The thesis argues that human work is a transformative activity which essentially consists of thre... more The thesis argues that human work is a transformative activity which essentially consists of three dynamically interrelated dimensions: the instrumental, relational, and ontological dimensions. By these, along with work being an end in itself, the worker's and others' needs are providentially met; believers' sanctification is occasioned; and workers express, explore and develop their humanness while building up their natural, social and cultural environments to both protect and produce the order of this world and of the one to come. The first part shows that past and present theological evaluations of work are best understood according to this threefold description. Work's threefold nature is shown to correspond with Scripture (although here the instrumental is mainly discussed); the Patristic understanding opens up reflection toward work's ontology; and the Reformation particularly develops further the relational and ontological dimensions. In the modern Roman C...

Massachusettsviii, 148 p.; 21 c

Darrell T. Cosden University of St. Andrews Thesis: “The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work: The Natur... more Darrell T. Cosden University of St. Andrews Thesis: “The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work: The Nature of Work in its Instrumental, Relational, and Ontological Dimensions” The thesis argues that human work is a transformative activity which essentially consists of three dynamically interrelated dimensions: the instrumental, relational, and ontological dimensions. By these, along with work being an end in itself, the worker’s and others’ needs are providentially met; believers’ sanctification is occasioned; and workers express, explore and develop their humanness while building up their natural, social and cultural environments to both protect and produce the order of this world and of the one to come. The first part shows that past and present theological evaluations of work are best understood according to this threefold description. Work’s threefold nature is shown to correspond with Scripture (although here the instrumental is mainly discussed); the Patristic understanding opens up r...

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 2001

... Theological education and training are mission work in the narrow as well as in the broad sen... more ... Theological education and training are mission work in the narrow as well as in the broad sense. ... In the train-ing efforts of Jesus and the Apostle Paul, we see how this concept takes shape within the frame-work of the emerging church and its mission. ...

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2002

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2002

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2002

in The Bible In World Christian Perspective: Studies in Honor of Carl Edwin Armerding. eds. David... more in The Bible In World Christian Perspective: Studies in Honor of Carl Edwin Armerding. eds. David W. Baker and W. Ward Gasque, Vancouver, British Columbia: Regent College Publishing, 2009

This study examines the model of faith-business integration developed at ServiceMaster, and relat... more This study examines the model of faith-business integration developed at ServiceMaster, and relatedly Bill Pollard’s role in developing and implementing it. My argument is that ServiceMaster’s celebrated 4 corporate goals functioned both as a mission statement defining the core of the business, but at the same time also as “philosophy of Christian ministry” infusing their core business with the Christian faith. As used, the 4 goals functioned as a faith-business integration model in its own right, deserving a place alongside other models and thereby deserving reflective analysis and evaluation. To that end, this study examines how the model came to be and how it functioned. Further, attention is drawn to how well within the model the two dimensions (Christian faith and business mission) coinhere under the real-world business pressures encountered at ServiceMaster. Particularly here the study will mention the strategic business choices made by Pollard’s predecessors, Pollard himself,...

The thesis argues that human work is a transformative activity which essentially consists of thre... more The thesis argues that human work is a transformative activity which essentially consists of three dynamically interrelated dimensions: the instrumental, relational, and ontological dimensions. By these, along with work being an end in itself, the worker's and others' needs are providentially met; believers' sanctification is occasioned; and workers express, explore and develop their humanness while building up their natural, social and cultural environments to both protect and produce the order of this world and of the one to come. The first part shows that past and present theological evaluations of work are best understood according to this threefold description. Work's threefold nature is shown to correspond with Scripture (although here the instrumental is mainly discussed); the Patristic understanding opens up reflection toward work's ontology; and the Reformation particularly develops further the relational and ontological dimensions. In the modern Roman C...

Massachusettsviii, 148 p.; 21 c

Darrell T. Cosden University of St. Andrews Thesis: “The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work: The Natur... more Darrell T. Cosden University of St. Andrews Thesis: “The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work: The Nature of Work in its Instrumental, Relational, and Ontological Dimensions” The thesis argues that human work is a transformative activity which essentially consists of three dynamically interrelated dimensions: the instrumental, relational, and ontological dimensions. By these, along with work being an end in itself, the worker’s and others’ needs are providentially met; believers’ sanctification is occasioned; and workers express, explore and develop their humanness while building up their natural, social and cultural environments to both protect and produce the order of this world and of the one to come. The first part shows that past and present theological evaluations of work are best understood according to this threefold description. Work’s threefold nature is shown to correspond with Scripture (although here the instrumental is mainly discussed); the Patristic understanding opens up r...

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 2001

... Theological education and training are mission work in the narrow as well as in the broad sen... more ... Theological education and training are mission work in the narrow as well as in the broad sense. ... In the train-ing efforts of Jesus and the Apostle Paul, we see how this concept takes shape within the frame-work of the emerging church and its mission. ...

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2002

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2002

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2002