BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE

This chapter investigates what Scripture teaches about work, property, stewardship, commercial truthfulness, economic justice, wealth, leadership, prudent judgment and accountability, and how those teachings may responsibly inform contemporary enterprise practice. Unlike a generalized ethics survey, its governing method is explicitly Christian and text-centred: Sola Scriptura is combined with attention to literary genre, historical setting, covenantal location, canonical continuity and the distinction between exegesis and managerial inference. A critical, purposive synthesis engages biblical texts, theological scholarship, business-ethics literature, international responsible-business guidance and official Rwandan secondary data. Twelve approved thematic domains are developed and integrated through a function-by-function application matrix, a staged interpretive decision protocol and a fully disclosed hypothetical Kigali enterprise case covering remuneration, product claims, financing, procurement and artificial intelligence. Rwanda's documented enterprise informality and labour-market conditions establish contextual constraints without being treated as evidence that Christian commitments cause superior organizational performance. The argument is neither that Scripture provides a modern corporate handbook nor that biblical faith has no operational significance. Rather, the canon furnishes normative commitments and critical questions through which business purposes, incentives and decisions can be evaluated, while empirical facts, technical standards and legal requirements must be established through appropriate methods. The chapter concludes with researchable propositions, interpretive limitations and a pedagogical apparatus designed for rigorous, transparent and ethically accountable practice.