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H. Richard Niebuhr's typology of the relation between Christ and culture can function as a heuristic device to identify different approaches to Christian business ethics. Five types are outlined: Christ Against Business, The Christ of Business, Christ Above Business, Christ and Business in Paradox, and Christ the Transformer of Business. This typology may facilitate discussion on the relative adequacy of various theological assumptions about ethical change in business.
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Louke Siker received her Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1987 (dissertation: “Interpreting Corporate Cultures: Philosophical and Theological Reasons for Doing Business Ethics in a Hermeneutical Mode”). She has taught Christian ethics and business ethics at Wake Forest University and Loyola Marymount University. Her research interests include methodology in business ethics. She is the author of ‘An Unlikely Dialogue: Barth and Business Ethicists on Human Work’, Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1989.
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Siker, L.v.W. Christ and business: A typology for Christian business ethics. J Bus Ethics 8, 883–888 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384532
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384532