Post Tagged 'For the Life of the World'

May 16, 2025

Pope Leo XIV and Orthodox Social Thought

The new pontiff of Rome has already set a tone for his papacy with the choice of his name: I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. Continue Reading...

November 29, 2016

Are Christians stuck with 3 approaches to cultural engagement?

How are we to be in the world but not of it? How are Christians to live and engage, create and exchange, cultivate and steward our gifts and relationships and resources here on earth? Continue Reading...

July 02, 2015

Now Available: ‘For the Life of the World: Leader’s Edition’

The Acton Institute’s seven-part film series, For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles, was created for a wide-ranging Christian audience, whether Baptist or Catholic, Orthodox or Presbyterian. Continue Reading...

May 22, 2015

Has FLOW Changed Your Perspective? Share Your Story!

Have you been inspired and influenced by the Acton Institute’s film series, For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles? What have you learned? How has it changed your perspective on work, culture, and whole-life discipleship? Continue Reading...

March 16, 2015

Video & Audio: Gene Veith On The Real Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism

Max Weber’s classic study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism made the case that the Reformation had a major impact on the rise of free market capitalism. But according to Gene Edward Veith, Weber misunderstood what it was about the Reformation that caused that impact. Continue Reading...

February 13, 2015

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the economy of love

On August 12, 1943, months after having been arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his young fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer: When I consider the state of the world, the total obscurity enshrouding our personal destiny, and my present imprisonment, our union—if it wasn’t frivolity, which it certainly wasn’t—can only be a token of God’s grace and goodness, which summon us to believe in him. Continue Reading...

January 20, 2015

Life in Exile: Being in the World but Not of It

Given the many warnings about the “crisis of Christianity,” the inevitable rise of secularization, and the decline of our public witness (etc.), it may not be all that surprising that the most popular verse of 2014 focuses on the key tension the underlies it all. Continue Reading...

January 12, 2015

Post Tagged 'For the Life of the World'

Are Christians stuck with 3 approaches to cultural engagement?

Now Available: ‘For the Life of the World: Leader’s Edition’

Video & Audio: Gene Veith On The Real Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the economy of love

Life in Exile: Being in the World but Not of It

Economy of Wonder: Peter Kreeft on Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Lessons in humility from the Christ Child

Economic Flourishing Is More Than a Mission Trend