Bibliography

Theology of Work

Core Bibliography (some out-of-print)

Dennis W. Bakke, Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job (Toronto: Viking
Canada, 2005).
Ray Bakke, Lowell Bakke and William Hendricks, Joy at Work Bible Study Companion (PVC:
www.dennisbakke.com)
Peter Block, Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self (Koehler, 1995).
Os Guiness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: Word,
1998).
Richard Higginson, Questions of Business Life: Exploring Workplace Issues from a Christian
Perspective (Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Spring Harvest, 2002).
Richard Higginson, Called to Account: Adding Value in God’s World: Integrating Christianity
and Business Effectively (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1993).
R. Paul Stevens, The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work and Ministry in Biblical Perspective
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999),published in UK under the title: The Abolition of the Laity
R. Paul Stevens, Doing God’s Business: Meaning and Motivation for the Marketplace
R. Paul Stevens, ed. “Appendices to the Theology of Work” (see below)
Miroslav Volf, Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1991) or
_____________, “Human Work, Divine Spirit, and the New Creation: Toward a
Pneumatological Understanding of Work,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal
Studies (Fall 1987), p. 175 (173-193).

Recommended Reading
Robert Banks, God the Worker: Journeys into the Mind, Heart and Imagination of God (Valley
Forge: Judson Press, 1994).
Robert Banks & Kimberly Powell, eds., Faith in Leadership: How Leaders Live Out Their Faith
in Their Work and Why It Matters (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000).
John D. Beckett, Mastering Monday: A Guide to Integrating Faith and Work (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 2006).
Darrell Cosden, A Theology of Work: Work and the New Creation (Carlisle, Cumbria, UK:
Paternoster Press, 2004).
 John Dalla Costa, Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business (Ottawa: Saint Paul
University – Novalis Press, 2005).
William Dumbrell, “Creation, Covenant and Work,” Crux 24.3 (September 1988): 14-24.
Lee Hardy, The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of
Human Work (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).
Gilbert C. Meilander, ed., Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits (Notre Dame, Notre
DameUniversity Press, 2000).
David W. Miller, God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement (Oxford
University Press, 2006).
Gordon Preece, Changing Work Values (Melbourne, Australia: Acorn Press, 1995).
Alan Richardson, The Biblical Doctrine of Work (London: SCM Press, 1952).
Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Work-Force and the Dawn of the
Post-Market Era (London: Penguin Books, 2000).
Reg Theriault, How to Tell When You’re Tired: A Brief Examination of Work (New York: W.W.
Norton& Co., 1995)
Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About
What They Do (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974).
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, All You Who Labor: Work and the Sanctification of Daily Life
(Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 1995).

Additional Bibliography

Helen J. Alford, and Michael J. Naughton, Managing as is Faith Mattered: Christian Social
Principles in the Modern Organization (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
Ray S. Anderson, Minding God’s Business (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986).
Robert Banks, ed., Faith Goes to Work (Washington, DC: Alban Institute, 1993).
Robert Banks, "Work Ethic, Protestant," Robert Banks and R. Paul Stevens, eds., The Complete
Book of Everyday Christianity (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 1129-1132.
Robert and Linda Banks, Going to Work with God: Eight Flexible Study Guides for Use at, after,
or Outside Work (Macquarie Park, Australia: Bible Society NSW, 2005)
Grace Preedy Barnes, Servant First: Readings and Reflections on the Practice of Servant
Leadership (Indianapolis, Indiana: Precedent Press, 2006).
Karl Barth, ‘Vocation,’ in Church Dogmatics, trans. A.T. Mackay, T.H.L. Parker, H. Knight,
H.A. Kennedy, and J. Marks, vol 3, part 4:595-647 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1961).
John A. Bernbaum and Simon Steer, Why Work? Careers and Employment in Biblical
Perspective (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1986).
Peter L. Berger, The Capitalist Spirit: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation (San
Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1990).
____________, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, 1967).
H. Berkhof, Christ and the Powers, trans. J.H. Yoder (Scottdale, Penn.: Herald, 1962).
Klaus Bochmuehl, “Recovering Vocation Today,” Crux, Vol XXIV, No 3 ((September
1988):25-35.
Dietrich Bonheoffer, Ethics (London: SCM Press, 1976).
Richard C. Chewning, John W. Eby, Shirley Roels, Business Through the Eyes of Faith
(HarperSanFrancisco, 1992).
Richard C. Chewning, ed., Biblical Principles & Economics: The Foundations, Vols 1,2
(Colorado Springs: Navpress, 1989).
_____________________, Biblical Principles & Economics: The Practice, Vols 3,4 (Colorado
Springs: Navpress, 1991).
Christians in the Marketplace, Vols 1-2 (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Graduates Christian Fellowship,
1995, 1997).
S. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989).
Peter Curran, All the Hours God Sends? Practical and Biblical Help in Meeting the Demands of
Work (Leicester, UK: InterVarsity Press, 2000).
John Jefferson Davis, “’Teaching Them to Observe All that I Have Commanded You’” The
History of the Interpretation of the ‘Great Commission’ and Implications for Marketplace
Ministries” (South Hamilton, MA: Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary, unpublished, 1998).
William E. Diehl, Thank God It's Monday (Philadelphia: Fortress Press,1982).
_____________, The Monday Connection: A Spirituality of Competence, Affirmation, and Support
in the Workplace (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).
_____________, Christianity and Real Life (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976).
William L. Droel, Business People: The Spirituality of Work (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 1990).
Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (New York: Harper
& Row,
1985).
William Dumbrell, “Creation, Covenant and Work,” Crux 24.3 (September 1988): 14-24.
Jacques Ellul, Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes, trans. Joyce Main Hanks (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972).
___________, Money and Power, trans. L. Neff (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1984).
___________, “Meditation on Inutility,” The Politics of God and the Politics of Man, trans.
Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972), 190-199.
Richard Foster, Money, Sex and Power: The Challenge of the Disciplined Life (San Francisco:
Harper San Francisco, 1985).
T.L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree ( New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999).
Craig Gay, With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate over Capitalism
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991).
Robert Girard, “Failure,” in Banks and Stevens eds., The Complete Book of Everyday
Christianity (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 363-366.
Emilie Dietrich Griffin, The Reflective Executive (New York: Crossroad, 1993).
E. Goodell, ed., Social Venture Network Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility (San
Francisco: Social Venture Network, 1999).
Richard Foster, Money, Sex and Power: The Challenge of the Disciplined Life (San Francisco:
Harper San Francisco, 1985).
Stephen R. Graves and Thomas G. Addington, The Fourth Frontier: Exploring the New World of
Work (Nashville: Word, 2000).
Thomas H. Green, Darkness in the Marketplace: The Christian at Prayer in the World (Notre
Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 1981).
R. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership (NJ.: Paulist Press, 1977).
Stanley Grenz, "Community as Theology Motif for the Western Church in an Era of
Globalization," Crux Vol XXVIII, No 3: 10-19.
Emilie Griffin, The Reflective Executive: A Spirituality of Business and Enterprise (New York:
Crossroad, 1993).
Brian Griffiths, The Creation of Wealth (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984).
Os Guiness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: Word,
1998).
__________, Winning Back the Soul of American Business (Washington, D.C.: Hourglass
Publishers, 1990).
Pete Hammond, R. Paul Stevens and Todd Svanoe, The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography: A
Christian Guide to Books on Work, Business and Vocation (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press,
2002).
Charles Handy, Waiting for the Mountain to Move: Reflections on Work and Life (San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1999).
___________, The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism - A Quest for Purpose in the Modern
World (London: Hutchinson, 1997).
Marc Gunther, “God and Business: The Surprising Quest for Spiritual Renewal in the American
Workplace,” Fortune, Vol 144 (No 1): 58-80.
Lee Hardy, The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of
Human Work (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990).
John Haughey, Converting Nine to Five: A Spirituality of Daily Work (New York: Crossroads,
1989).
S. Helgesen, The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership (New York: Doubleday, 1990).
Donald R. Heiges, The Christian’s Calling (Philadelphia: United Lutheran Church in America,
1958).
Bruce Hiebert, Good Work: How to Live Your Values in the Workplace (Kelowna, BC:
Northstone Publishing, 1997).
Richard Higginson, Called to Account: Adding Value in God’s World - Integrating Christianity
and Business Effectively (Guildford, Surrey: Eagle, 1993).
_______________, Questions of Business Life: Exploring Workplace Issues from a Christian
Perspective (Carlisle, Cumbria: Authentic Media, 2002).
Alexander Hill, Just Business: Christian Ethics in the Marketplace (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 1997).
R. F. Hock, The Social Context of Paul’s Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1980), p.166.
Joe Holland, Creative Communion: Toward a Spirituality of Work (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989).
James M. Kouzes, and Barry Z. Possner, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People
Demand It (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993).
Hendrik Kraemer, A Theology of the Laity (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1958).
Lake Lambert III, “Called to Business: Corporate Management as a Profession of Faith,” (PhD
Dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1997, available through UMI Services).
Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life (New York: Three Rivers
Press, 1997).
Martin Luther, "Treatise on Good Works," in W.A. Lambert, trans., James Atkinson, ed. Luther's
Works, Vol 44 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966), 15-114.
Paul Marshall, A Kind of Life Imposed on Man: Vocation and Social Order from Tyndale to
Locke (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
___________, Thine Is the Kingdom (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986).
Paul Marshall and Lela Gilbert, Heaven is Not my Home: Learning to Live in God’s Creation
(Nashville: Word Publishing, 1998).
David W. Miller, “The Faith at Work Movement: Its Growth, Dynamics and Future” PhD
Thesis, Princeton University, 2003.
Laura Nash, Believers in Business: Resolving the Tensions between Christian Faith, Business
Ethics and our Definitions of Success (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995).
Richard John Neuhaus, Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge of the Christian Capitalist
(New York: Doubleday, 1992).
Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1986).
______________, The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989).
______________, Unfinished Agenda: An Updated Autobiography (St. Andrews, 1993).
______________, Honest Religion for Secular Man (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1966).
Bruce Nicholls, Contextualization: A Theology of Gospel and Culture (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 1979).
Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (New York: The Free Press,
1996).
____________, Toward a Theology of the Corporation (Washington, DC: American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981).
____________, The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Catholicism (New York: The Free Press,
1993).
____________, The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997).
____________, “Human Dignity, Personal Liberty: Themes from Abraham Kuyper and Leo
XIII, in Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol 5, no 1 (Spring 2002): 59-134.
Thomas Oden, Two Worlds: Notes on the Death of Modernity in America and Russia (Downers
Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992).
E. H. Oliver. The Social Achievements of the Christian Church (United Church of Canada, 1930,
reprinted Regent Publishing, 2004).
William Perkins, “A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men” in The Work of William
Perkins, ed. and intro. By Ian Breward (Appleford, UK: Courtenay Press, 1970).
Gordon Preece, Changing Work Values: A Christian Response (Melbourne: Acorn Press, 1995).
____________, “Business as a Calling and Profession: Towards a Protestant Entrepreneurial
Ethic” (unpublished manuscript delivered at the International Marketplace Theology
Consultation, Sydney, June 2001).
Scott Rae and Kenman Wong, Beyond Integrity: A judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996).
D. G. Reid, “Principalities and Powers,” in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. F.F.
Hawthorne, R. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1993).
John Renesch, ed. New Traditions in Business: Spirit and Leadership in the 21st Century (San
Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1992).
Alan Richardson, The Biblical Doctrine of Work (London: SCM Press, 1952).
Leland Ryken, Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure (Grand Rapids;
Baker, 1995).
Vinay Samuel, “Evangelical Response to Globalisation: An Asian Perspective,” Transformation
(January 1999).
Edgar H Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View (San Fancisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1991).
Doug Sherman and William Hendricks, Your Work Matters to God (Colorado Springs: Navpress,
1988).
H. Schleir, Principalities and Powers in the New Testament (New York: Herder & Herder,
1964).
Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Press, 1988).
Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (New
York: Doubleday, 1990).
Ed Silvoso, Anointed for Business: How Christians Can Use Their Influence in the Marketplace to
Change the World (Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2002).
Erwin O. Smigel, ed. Work and Leisure: A Contemporary Social Problem (New Haven, Conn.:
College and University Press, 1963).
Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Shirley J. Roels, Preston N. Williams, On Moral
Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1995).
Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Trenton NJ: Francis S. Wiggins, 1823).
R. Paul Stevens, “The Spiritual & Religious Sources of Entrepreneurship: From Max Weber to the
New Business Spirituality, Crux, Vol XXXVI, No 2 (June 2000), 22-33; reprinted in Stimulus: The
New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, Vol 9, Issues 1 (Feb 2001):2-11.
_____________, “The Marketplace: Mission Field or Mission?” Crux, Vol XXXVII, No 3
(September 2001): 7-16.
_____________, “Vocational Conversion: An Imaginary Puritan-Baby Boomer Dialogue” Crux,
XXXVII (December 2001), No 4, 2-8.
_____________, The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work and Ministry in Biblical Perspective
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans and Vancouver: Regent Publishing, 1999).
_____________, “Wealth,” in Robert Banks and R. Paul Stevens, The Complete Book of
Everyday Christianity (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997): 1102-1106.
_____________, Seven Days of Faith (Colorado Springs: Navpress, 2001), 49-50.
_____________, The Equippers’ Guider to Every Member Ministry (Vancouver: Regent College
Publishing, 2000).
_____________, Down-to-Earth Spirituality: Encountering God in the Ordinary, Boring Stuff of
Life (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2003).
William M. Sullivan, Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America
(New York: Harper, 1995).
Benny Tabalujian, God on Monday: Reflections on Christians @ Work (Melbourne, Australia:
Klesis Institute, 2005).
The Task Force on Issues of Vocation and Problems of Work in the United States Presbyterian
Church (USA), Challenges in the Workplace (Louisville: Presbyterian Church [USA], 1990).
Ernst Troeltsch, The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches, trans. Olive Wyon (Louseville:
Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992).
John E. Tropman & Gersh Morningstar, Entrepreneurial Systems for the 1990s: Their Creation,
Structure and Management (New York: Quorum Books, 1989).
Elton Trueblood, Your Other Vocation (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952).
William Tyndale, “A Parable of the Wicked Mammon,” in Treatises and Portions of Holy
Scripture (1527; reprint, Cambridge: Parker Society, 1848), 98, 104.
Miroslav Volf, Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1991).
_____________, “Human Work, Divine Spirit, and the New Creation: Toward a
Pneumatological Understanding of Work,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal
Studies (Fall 1987), p. 175 (173-193).
Robert A. Wauzzinski, Between God and Gold: Protestant Evangelicalism and the Industrial
Revolution 1820-1914 (Rutherford: Furleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993).
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958).
John Wesley, “The Use of Money,” in Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis McCann, and Shirley Roels,
eds. On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 197.
Lynn White Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Science 155, no 3767 (March
10, 1967): 1203-1207.
Loren Wilkinson, "One Earth, One World, One Church," Crux (March 1992), Vol XXVIII, No
1:28-36.
Paul S. Williams, “Hermeneutics for Economists: The Relevance of the Bible to Economics,”
(MCS Thesis, Regent College, Vancouver, 1995).
W. Wink, Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1984).
Siew Li Wong, “A Defence of the Intrinsic Value of ‘Secular Work’ in Tentmaking Ministry in
the Light of the Theology Doctrines of Creation, Redemption and Eschatology” (MCS Thesis,
Regent College, Vancouver, April 2000).
Walter Wright Jr., Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Relationship and Service
(Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Paternoster Press, 2000).
Christopher J. H. Wright, Living as the People of God: The Relevance of Old Testament Ethics
(Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1998).
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, All You Who Labor: Work and the Sanctification of Daily Life
(Manchester, NH: Sophia Press, 1995).

Appendices (available on registration for the Theology of Work course)

1. Reading the Bible in the Global Marketplace 3
2. Organizational Culture and Change 17
3. Organizational Values 23
4. Leadership 27
5. Faith: Discovering the Soul of Work 32
6. The Prophets: People of the Burning Heart 39
7. A View from the Ground: The Great Commandment Company in the Philippines 47
8. Love: Recovering the Amateur Status 51
9. On Being Kingdom People: Regents of our God and King 58
10. Aware of the Struggle 68
10. Hope: Making Our Mark on Heaven 81
11. Work Ethic, Protestant 86
12. Tentmaking 90
13. Work 97

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