[The contest is now closed. The winners are Juan Callejas, Jacqueline Isaacs, and Jeff Wright. Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected]]
John Bolt’s new book, Economic Shalom, is now available from Christian’s Library Press. The book, which is the final in a four-part series of tradition-specific primers, offers a Reformed approach to faith, work, and economics.
To celebrate, CLP will be giving away three copies of the book. The rules are listed below, and you must comment on this blog post for your name to be in the running.
But first, to whet your appetite, here’s an excerpt from Bolt’s first chapter on whether there is a “Biblical economics”:
A balanced approach to using the Bible to inform our economic life is multifaceted and includes illumination of creation principles, biblical wisdom, a biblical anthropology and eschatology, and the incarnation and example of Christ. Reformed people do not turn to the Bible for specific economic programs or policies, because they believe that these are given in God’s order of creation; we must learn about the specifics of these laws by studying creation and human experience….Reformed people also make use of what they learn from Scripture and use it to understand concrete human experience.
Thus, informed about human nature (that it is created, fallen, and redeemed), and world history (that it is under divine judgment and grace) Reformed Christians form theories and propose policies that will do justice to biblical revelation. We should not say, therefore, that a particular system of economics is “the biblical system”; the best we can do is call attention to features that are consistent with or at odds with a biblical understanding of humanity and the world.
This is precisely what Bolt aims to do, offering a marvelous exploration of how a Reformed theological perspective impacts the way we approach our engagement with the world around us.
There are five ways to enter your name, and you must insert a comment in this blog post for each. The more comments you make, the better your odds:
- Follow CLP on Twitter
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Please be sure to enter one comment for every form of entry, simply noting the action taken (e.g. “Followed on Twitter”). If you choose to enter 5 times, 5 individual comments are needed. If you already follow us or are already on our mailing list (items 1-3), just note that in your comment.
At the end, we will tally up the total number of comments and pick three winners at random.
The contest will end Thursday night, November 14, at 11:59 PM (CT). Winners will be announced on Friday, November 15, both in an update to this post and via CLP’s Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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