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modern for-profit corporation can accomplish great good within human
society. Chief among these goods is the ability to pull people from
poverty, provide them with a livable wage, and provide meaningful work.
Furthermore, the people employed within the corporation ought to have
opportunity to enhance skills and to experience personal growth that,
in turn, strengthens family life, community life, and civic engagement.
To the extent that the corporation lives up to these ideals, then the
corporation is a valuable human organization for participating in the
overall good of God's creation.
Thinking
Christianly about the corporation, both internally in its operations
and externally in its place in society, is a necessary step in making
sure that the corporation consistently fulfills its potential. This
conference seeks to understand corporate practice within the broader
theological framework of God's creative and redemptive work in our world.
The corporation, then, ought to be a place where the ethical teachings
of Jesus can be an element of the organizational ethos, and where people
of faith have opportunity to fully integrate their faith and work.
Latest
Updates:
Febuary 26, 2004: Annoucement
of selected papers and expanded conference
schedule
February
10, 2004: Updated conference schedule
January 21, 2004:
We're
pleased to add several distinguished contributors to our conference
schedule. See speakers page for a full
description of the following: David Gushee, David Befus, Kim Daus-Edwards,
Alexander Kulpecz, John H. Warton, Jr., and C. William Pollard.
For further
information, contact Dr. Kenneth R. Chase, Director, Center for Applied
Christian Ethics, at 630-752-5886, or kenneth.r.chase@wheaton.edu
"Analyzing
and Responding to Different Christian Views of the Corporation"
Denise Daniels (Associate Professor of Management, SPU)
Al Erisman (Executive in Residence, Seattle Pacific University)
Kenman Wong (Professor of Business Ethics, SPU)
"Integration
of Christian Ethical Decision-Making and Implementation"
Stacy Jackson (Assistant Dean, Center for Experiential Learning, in
the John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis)
"Bridging
Christian Ethics and Economic Life: How Theological Education Falls
Short"
John Knapp
(President, The Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics)
"Balancing
Servanthood and Stewardship: A Framework for Biblically- Consistent
Decision-Making"
Michael
Zigarelli (Associate Professor of Management, Regent University School
of Business)
This conference
is supported by funds contributed by The ServiceMaster Company. Over
the years, the leadership of ServiceMaster has been committed to the
integration of faith and work and the shaping of human character within
the work environment.
