checklist of practices. In a secular model, work is a means to a salvation which has not yet been attained. Work becomes a means of realizing man’s ultimate purpose or becomes the ultimate purpose of life in itself. Yet, when Christ hung on the cross, he said, “It is finished.”xxxviii This flies in the face of all conventional wisdom expressed in the teachings of all other philosophies. The fundamental purpose of mankind’s existence has already been achieved in Christ. The ultimate end has already been fulfilled. This is the firm foundation on which Christians are able to rest and build. The ultimate end of work is then no longer about striving for the unattainable, but a reflection of the Christian’s new life in Christ. i. Amanda Young, “Law, finance prove popular careers,” The Dartmouth, 27 February 2012, <http:// thedartmouth.com/2012/02/27/law-finance-provepopular-careers/>.; Dawn Kopecki, “Young Bankers Fed Up With 90-Hour Weeks Move to Startups,” Bloomberg, 9 May 2014, <http://www.bloomberg. com/news/articles/2014-05-09/young-bankers-fedup-with-90-hour-weeks-move-to-startups>. ii. Ravi Zacharias, “Think Again – Deep Questions | RZIM,” RZIM, 28 August 2014, <http://rzim.org/ just-thinking/think-again-deep-questions>. iii. Timothy Keller and Katherine Leary Alsdorf, “The Gospel and Other Worldviews,” in Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work (New York: Dutton, 2012), ch. 9, Stories and Worldviews. iv. David Papineau, “Naturalism,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, 21 September 2015, <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ naturalism/>. v. Only within the context of work. vi. “Stoicism,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, accessed 15 December 2015, <http://www.iep.utm. edu/stoicism/>. vii. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stoicism; Dirk Baltzly, “Stoicism,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, 21 March 2014, <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/>. viii. Paul Jun, “The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos,” 99u, 31 March 2014, accessed 15 January 2016, <http://99u.com/articles/24401/amakers-guidebook-9-stoic-principles-to-nurtureyour-life-and-work>. ix. Larry Wallace, “Indifference Is a Power,” Aeon, 24 December 2014, accessed 22 December 2015, <https://aeon.co/essays/why-stoicism-is-one-of-thebest-mind-hacks-ever-devised>. x. A. S. L. Farquharson, The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944); Jun, “The Stoic.” xi. Baltzly, “Stoicism.” xii. Anita Raghavan, “Rajat Gupta’s Lust for
Zeros,” The New York Times, 18 May 2013, accessed 14 January 2016, <http://www.nytimes. com/2013/05/19/magazine/rajat-guptas-lust-forzeros.html>. xiii. Raghavan, “Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros.” xiv. Kevid Dowd, “Moral Hazard and the Financial Crisis,” Cato Journal 29, no. 1 (2009): 141-166. xv. See Genesis 1. xvi. Irrelevant whether “day” is symbolic or literal. xvii. Genesis 1:27 (ESV). xviii. J. Samuel and Marie K. Hammond, “Creation and Sub-creation in Leaf by Niggle,” (paper presented at the 7th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends, Upland, Indiana, 2010), <https://library.taylor.edu/dotAsset/ afcf88aa-52b7-4dda-8e6b-d5efd2e6b1f6.pdf>. xix. Genesis 1:28 (ESV). xx. See Genesis 3:18. xxi. “David Foster Wallace on Life and Work,” Wall Street Journal, 19 September 2008, accessed 21 December 2015, <http://www.wsj.com/articles/ SB122178211966454607>. xxii. See 1 John 4:8. xxiii. Keller, ch. 11, A Different Set of Virtues. xxiv. Keller, ch. 11, A Different Set of Virtues. xxv. John 3:16 (ESV). xxvi. See 1 John 3:1-3 and 1 Timothy 2:3-4. xxvii. Keller, ch. 11, A Different Source of Guidance. xxviii. Keller, ch. 10. xxix. Keller, ch. 10, Dualism vs. Integration. xxx. Keller, ch. 11. xxxi. Andrew Stark, “What’s the Matter with Business Ethics?” Harvard Business Review, May/ June 1993, accessed 22 January 2016, <https:// hbr.org/1993/05/whats-the-matter-with-businessethics>. xxxii. Mark 12:30-31 (ESV). xxxiii. Colossians 3:23-24 (ESV). xxxiv. Keller, ch. 12. xxxv. Keller, ch. 12, The Power of True Passion. xxxvi. Keller, ch. 12, The Power of True Passion. xxxvii. Keller, ch. 12, The Rest Under the Rest. xxxviii. John 19:30 (ESV).
Samuel Ching ’19 is from Singapore. He is a prospective double major in Computer Science and Statistics, with a minor in Human Centered Design.
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