3 Offices and the Entrepreneur

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  • Examine the truth behind the theological model that can guide issue analysis and practice implementation: the Three-fold Office
  • Discover entrepreneurship issues within this Biblical pattern of excellence
  • Learn how to assess the value and worth of various entrepreneurial opportunities based on the Three-fold Office

About the Authors

Dr. Julius Kim

Prior to taking his current position at Westminster Seminary California (WSC), Dr. Kim ministered in a variety of ecclesiastical and academic settings. He has served in Presbyterian Church in America churches in California and Illinois. His current church calling is as Associate Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido, California. While in Illinois, he taught undergraduate communications at Trinity International University and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Following a brief tenure as Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Dr. Kim returned to Southern California to serve as Dean of Students and to teach Practical Theology at WSC.

Dr. Kim also continues to serve the broader Christian community as a preacher, speaker, and ministry consultantHis goals are to contribute both to the church and the academy through his teaching, preaching, and writing. He is the author of The Religion of Reason and the Reason for Religion: John Tillotson and the Latitudinarian Defense of Christianity, 1630–1694 and a contributor to Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California and Heralds of the King: Christ-centered Sermons in the Tradition of Edmund P. Clowney.

Dr. Phillip Kim

Phillip H. Kim is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Phillip H. Kim is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship. He studies, teaches, and advises on different aspects of how entrepreneurial ideas become reality. Specifically, his research interests include start-up processes and founding teams, institutions and entrepreneurship, cross-national differences in entrepreneurship (especially in emerging economies), technology entrepreneurship, and innovation narratives. To explore these interests, he has examined data from a variety of contexts including surveys of entrepreneurs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia; census data in Sweden; the early history of radio broadcasting; a respected technology transfer office; and a popular crowd funding platform.

His research has been published in leading entrepreneurship, management, and sociology journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Studies, Harvard Business Review, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, and American Behavioral Scientist and featured in the Wall Street Journal. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Venturing and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. He regularly presents his research at prominent academic conferences worldwide. 

 

This material is featured in Christian Entrepreneurship Program Course 1: What is Business

Christian Entrepreneurship Program is an online Biblical Entrepreneurship program developed by The Center for Christian Business Ethics Today and Fellowship of Companies for Christ International (FCCI.)