Business & Economics

Abraham Kuyper, Jordon J. Ballor, Melvin Flikkema

• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781683594505
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Economics

Kuyper 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.

SUBJECT INDEX

A

Adam, xlix, li, 105, 110, 112, 118

adultery, 38–39, 103

agriculture, xxxviii, xlix, lx–lxi, 58–59, 146, 149–50

common grace, 388–90, 391

Farmers Federation, 278–79

America. See United States.

Amsterdam, 69, 149, 171, 210, 322

Kuyper, Abraham and, xxxi, 125, 313–14

workers, 299, 302, 304

Anabaptists, 91, 118, 119

anarchists, anarchy, 207, 216m88, 272–73

labor, 277, 279, 338

animals, 56–58, 389–90

rights, protection movement, 54, 56–57

antirevolutionaries, xxi, 257, 319

movement, 177n6, 221n97, 313

pensions, 291–96

public relief, 248, 252, 291, 296

social question, 293–96

social structure, 148, 158

Antirevolutionary Party, 143–44, 150n4, 171, 242, 256, 343–344, 397

import duties, 256, 283–84

pensions, insurance, 293–96

social question, 293–94, 321, 327, 344–45, 348–49

trade unions, 327–28

Anti-Revolutionary Staatkunde, 319–20

anti-Semitism, 71n15, 395

antithesis, doctrine of, xiii, xxii–xxiii, xxiv

art, human, 181–82, 183n20, 184, 390–91

Association for the Care of the Interests of Young Girls, 264–66

Association for the Promotion of Factory and Handicraft Industry, 237

Athens, 156, 200

Austria, 156, 203

B

Babel, tower of, 315–16

bakeries, xxxiv, 337–38

Baltimore, 331–32

bankruptcy, 70–71, 356

banks, banking, 70, 189–90n32, 395

Jews, 60, 71, 395

Bastingius, Jeremias, xliiin4, xlviii, l, liv–lv, lvii–lviii, lxiii, 93

Bavinck, Herman, xlivn6

Baxter, Richard, lxix

Beets, Nicolaas, 201–2

Belgic Confession, 182

Belgium, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Forewords
• Editor’s Introduction: Calvinism in Business—An Enlightened Enterprise?: Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace, and the Potential of Business (Peter S. Heslam)
• Volume Introduction: Abraham Kuyper and the Economic Teachings of the Heidelberg Catechism: Abraham Kuyper and the Economic Teachings of the Heidelberg Catechism (Jordan J. Ballor)
• Abbreviations
• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
• You Shall Not Steal
• Remember the Sabbath Day
• Working People and the Church
• Sunday Rest and Hygiene
• Manual Labor
• The Social Question and the Christian Religion
• Draft Pension Scheme for Wage Earners
• Protectionism and Materialism
• Human Trafficking
• Social Organizations under Our Own Banner
• Feeding the Nation’s Workers
• The Social Question (1909)
• Industrial Organization
• The Sacred Order
• The Social Question (1917)
• What Next?
• Meditations
• Appendix: Common Grace and Commerce
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• About Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)
• About the Contributors
• Subject Index
• Scripture Index
• Old Testament