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entrepreneurship for human flourishing. Written by chris horse and Peter Greer, the eminent sociologist Peter Berger once described the United States as a nation of indians ruled by Swedes. By this, he meant that ordinary americans are a vibrantly religious people akin to India with its practicing Hindus Buddhists, Muslims, christians and others gallup has been surveying americans since 1944 to ask if they believe in God. And every year more than nine and 10 have said yes. But many cultural and political elites in the United States do not share this religiosity burger compares these rulers to the Swedish of whom fewer than 18% professed divine belief and less than 4% attend weekly religious services in the academy. We can see both dynamics at work. Many ivy league and other elite schools were founded long ago for the express purpose of advancing christian theology and learning. Yet today, new allegiances have replaced these founding purposes. The rise of science and an enlightenment based commitment to reason have often been accompanied by distaste for religious faith. In many contemporary academic departments, race, gender and class have become lenses through which history and contemporary affairs are understood. Of course not all college campuses have followed this path. As of 2014, more than 900 of America's approximately 1700 private four year colleges are religious schools of these 119 are evangelical colleges that qualify for membership in the council for christian colleges and universities because of their particular views of scripture and historic christian doctrine. This book was written with these faith based campuses squarely in mind since 2009, the american enterprise institute through its values capitalism. Project has built a special outreach initiative to christian colleges throughout the United States to advance a moral case for for free enterprise in partnership with professors and students. While views on these campuses are by no means monolithic about markets and the role of the state and regulating the economy. One shared conviction at virtually all evangelical campuses is that work comes from God and is therefore a gift work was assigned to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden before the fall. The mandate to steward the earth and to bear the imago dewey by exercising Dominion throughout the created order means that in spite of sin, work is an essential and inherent part of what it means to be human. In fact, Jesus christ embodied this insight during his life on earth as the moral philosopher and theologian Michael Novak recently observed the lord God creator called the christ the redeemer to shoulder the vocation of small business, A creative vocation of humble service. A vocation of humble service, S. E helping his family earn its own way one. It is all too easy to miss the reality that jesus was a hardworking entrepreneur, remarkably theologian Klaus is lower estimates that Jesus spent six times as many years working as a carpenter as he did in his public ministry. This fact should help christians take heart and be inspired to discover and put to use our unique God given talents in the workplace because this is what we were made to do as chris horst and Peter Greer described in this volume, entrepreneurship is often difficult because it involves personal risk, new territory and typically trial and error. And yet the christian entrepreneur can be guided not only by life experience, but also by faith entrepreneurs who live by faith, can put into practice the reality. Many christian colleges today teach that there is no sacred secular divide in that sunday morning faith is no different than that, which sustains one's 40 hour work week. This book deepens this insight by combining first rate scholarship with the power of true firsthand stories, moreover, the authors explain how entrepreneurial capitalism is the long term Nouriel capitalism is the long term hope of the poor and therefore of us all, if you are a christian college student or if you are considering a leap of faith as an entrepreneur. This i e book is written particularly with you in mind, I hope it can help you to think a new about the value of entrepreneurship and to persevere in the challenging work of discerning your own vocation. Although that journey is sometimes a struggle is also a joy filled journey, particularly because in the context of business we can emulate the creator by bringing into being new goods and services that can bless people and foster human flourishing josh, good ie values capitalism. Program managers. Chapter one, I chris walked through the doors of the exhibition hall excited about the Denver Faith and Justice conference. Throughout the event, I could feel the energy generated by hundreds of young leaders passionate about fighting global poverty and injustice, but something was missing. Peter and I are privileged to participate in many conferences and conversations on justice and poverty. Over the years we've developed the habit of scouring speaker lists while looking at lineups of plenary and breakout present ary and breakout presenters is not odd in itself. The peculiar nature of our habit is that we vocation hunt specifically, we search for business people like prospectors in a stream. We sift through programs to find that rare deposit of gold. A presenter with a direct connection to business. Typically it's a social entrepreneur of some variety. It could be a business person employing homeless people or teaching recovering addicts a new skill or someone who has started a business overseas to employ women escaping prostitution or an entrepreneur who left business to use his skills with a nonprofit or a business owner selling scarce resources in a particularly vulnerable neighborhood like a grocer opening up shop in an urban food desert. These people look a lot like our colleagues serving in Hope International's microphone manse programs around the world, but it is uncommon to find an everyday business person at a justice conference that particular weekend in october the day ever. Faith and justice conference was no different despite an impressive lineup, not a single business person was on the speaker list. Despite attending dozens of such conferences over the years, we've yet to hear from a metal manufacturer or commercial banker or commercial banker, a home builder or tax accountant, that doesn't make sense. If we are truly committed to justice and poverty eradication, then we simply must learn to celebrate the powerful impact of normal everyday businessman and business women. This book will show you why in this book we explore entrepreneurship in all its stages small, big and grassroots and articulate how essential it is for vibrant economies and flourishing communities. Chapter two builds the case for the centrality of enterprise in the War on poverty. Chapter three examines the role of small and medium sized businesses. Chapter four investigates mature enterprises, global multinational corporations. Chapter five explorers, entrepreneurship at the grassroots level. Chapter six discusses the insufficiency of financial success alone and the key roles faith and values play in human flourishing woven throughout each chapter are stories of remarkable men and women who create, build and understand the high calling they have to live as entrepreneurs people. We hope you might one day see featured at a justice conference for their work in alleviating poverty and promoting flourishing communities