Department(s)

Business Administration

Document Type

Article

Version Deposited

Accepted manuscript

Publication Date

8-18-2025

Abstract

There are plenty of good reasons to be suspicious about profit-seeking. There are also good reasons to be suspicious about attempts to justify the pursuit of profits by focusing solely on the value of profits or of the work that produces the profits. Nevertheless, there is a good reason for the Christian to engage in profit-seeking: it can be a way to participate more fully in the missio Dei. Profit-seeking plays a central role within the market process by communicating and incentivizing a certain way of relating to the material and social world. When we realize profits in ways that better reflect the divine nature, we thus point the market process toward God. In so doing, we experience a fuller communion with God ourselves.

Publication Title

Christian Scholars' Review

Volume

49

Issue

4

First Page

51

Last Page

66

Comments

Publication can be accessed at this link: https://christianscholars.com/why-seek-profits-a-missional-perspective-on-business/

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