St. Maximos' Hut

Now and again, while looking for wholly unrelated things on the internet (in this case commentary on Pauline passages dealing with idolatry), we all run across something unexpected. In this case it is an essay by Bob Goudzwaard entitled Christianity and Economics.
Goudzwaard addresses several questions including

Is the Biblical revelation silent about economic life, and the way it should be perceived?
If it is not, what explanation is there for the strange opinion among Christians that one’s views about economic life are a merely private affair?

The views these questions as having "great practical importance, including in the area of education."
He also briefly examines three characteristics of the "new artificially created [economic] world." These characteristics are:

(i) a lack of responsibility and accountability
(ii) a loss of qualitative aspects and insights
(iii) a restless and risky dynamism

Dr. Goudzwaard, Professor Emeritus of the Free University of Amsterdam,takes a Reformed view of society, for example viewing markets as good gifts from the Creator because of their usefulness in serving one another. It is worth a read (although not, perhaps, when preparing a sermon!)