A Christian businessman emailed me yesterday to inquire about recommended reading on the issue of Christianity and the workplace. This brother is currently reading, and enjoying, Wayne Grudem’s Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business (Crossway).
To Grudem, I would add Carl Henry’s excellent discourse on work and the image of God in his Christian Personal Ethics (now, sadly, out of print). I would also recommend David Hegeman’s superb book, Plowing in Hope: Toward a Biblical Theology of Culture (Canon). Hegeman demonstrates that labor is not a result of the Fall, but that vocation is restored in Christ. This means the faithful truck driver or auto mechanic or cabbage farmer or stockbroker is pointing to something that will be true of us in the New Earth.
