The author is the instructor for the April, 2008, class at BGU.
I'll summerize what I've read by quoting from the books "epilog:"
"The contemplative Leaders are saints dressed in ordinary business suites. They know the complexity of working in the real world of trade-offs, deals, and half-truths and they live by grace, God's gratuitous unselfing of himself that enables them to go the extra mile, to offer extraordinary service, to see the slimiest competitor as one made in God's image, albeit distorted and twisted.
The contemplative leader know themselves to be deeply approved by God.
They know it is not work itself that makes them acceptable to God and that the most menial seeming job is meant to please God.
The contemplative leader knows that God is present in the marketplace, have gospel confidence and their identity is not wrapped up in making the best deal, or advancing up the corporate ladder, or owning more than others.
The contemplative leader is acquainted with compromise but are never of touch with God.
The contemplative leaders prays; lifts everything up to God - meetings, contacts with others, decisions, and intercession for the company or institution; engages in spiritual warfare because he/she faces a multi-level resistance from the world, the flesh, and the devil Deals with the world by non-conformity (Romans 12:1-2), yet loving the world as God does; deals with fallen structures by engagement and transformation, making a difference where they can by participation and sometimes by non-violent suffering; deals with the flesh by crucifying the flesh (not the body but life lived without God and turned in on oneself) and by walking in the Spirit (Gal. 5:24-25); deals with the devil by the Word and prayer."
If this book is an indication of the class led by Professor Stevens, I'm going to need to buckle-up.
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