Product Information

Author / Hwa Yung

Edited by / Soo-Inn Tan

ISBN / 9789810845452

Publisher / Graceworks Private Limited

Publication Date / 2010

Format / Paperback (Softcover)

Language / English

Number of Pages / 96

Dimensions / 20.3 x 11.5 x 0.8 cm

Weight / 100g

Condition of the book:

This book remains unused/in good condition, but shows yellowing of pages due to age/storage.

Author Description

Hwa Yung is the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. He has been a minister of the Methodist Church in Malaysia since 1981. During this time he served as a pastor, and lecturer and Principal of the Malaysia Theological Seminary (STM). He was also the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore.

He is engaged in various ministries internationally, including being the Chairman of the Board of the Oxford Centre for the Mission Studies, Oxford, and a member of the Congress Management Committee for the 3rd Lausanne Congress for World Evangelization, Cape Town 2010. His writings have focused largely on missions and Asian Christianity. His wife, Bee Teik, is trained as a doctor but now works as a writer and spiritual director. They have three children, Yang Jerng, Xin Ping and En Ning.

Product Description

The external pressures faced by Christians in the marketplace in Asia are the same as those faced by Christians worldwide. Few of us have sufficient inner spiritual strength and pastoral support to deal with the relentless power of sin as manifested in the corporate world. Increasingly too, in a globalised economy, there is a need for Christians in the West to understand the ramifications of working in Asia.

This short book is one attempt to respond to the need to help Christians in Asia find a biblical response to the real pressures they face in the marketplace. It takes seriously both the Scriptures and the context in which Asian Christians function. In order to provide a holistic look at the issues involved, Bribery and Corruption begins with a theological framework for grappling with real-time problems, continues with responses from various theologians on the framework presented, and concludes with actual case studies from the marketplace.

He forces us all to step beyond our dualism, to move past giving simple answers to complex questions, and to be humble in accepting that a brother or sister in another part of the world might make a decision that is different from the one we make in another context. I trust this book will be an inspiration, and a reason for hope, for all of those called by God to work in a setting where the path forward is neither easy nor clear. 

(Albert M. Erisman, Center for Integrity in Business, Seattle Pacific University)

The freedom for the Christian to choose his level of involvement in society is admirably treated. The conclusion that true moral transformation of society cannot be effected unless there is a spiritual revival is well-made.

(L.T. Jeyachandran, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, (Asia Pacific) Limited)

This careful essay on bribery and corruption makes a lot of sense to me. We need to get away from legalism and formalism and ask "what is the point here?" What are the values we are trying to protect? Corruption of justice and fairness? Unloading needed medical supplies off of a boat? Pleasing the WTO?

(David W. Gill, Ethixbizine)

Contents

Section 1—Biblical Reflections

1 / External Pressures and Internal Inadequacies

2 / Developing a Theology of Social Engagement

3 / Applying the "Incarnational Model" In Practice: The Problem of Bribery and Corruption

Conclusion

Section 2—Theological Responses

4 / Response by Albert M. Erisman

5 / Response by L.T. Jeyachandran

6 / Response by David Gill

Section 3—Case Studies

7 / Case Study by Sherman Lam

8 / Case Study by Dr H

9 / Case Study by Mr C