Benjamin Nicka

Ben Nicka has spent a career at the intersection of theology and work in finance. 
 

He conceives of his academic research as an exercise in theological counsel, a process wherein finance and theology engage in dialogic disclosure of both moral reality and the contemporary practical field of action in the moral culture of finance. 
 

His doctoral work, tentatively entitled ‘The Defective Moral Vision of Index Fund Investing: An Exercise in Theological Counsel', examines the moral theological foundations of financial investment. It begins with listening to the moral understanding embodied in each index fund investing and the contemporary Christian faith-based investment movement in the U.S. The insights of these varied perspectives are then brought into conversation with Christian moral realism and theological investigation of the moral order, concepts of property rights, and political theology.
 

He undertakes this study after nearly 20 years as a mergers and acquisitions advisor at Deloitte, primarily in New York City. While in New York, he taught on the theology of work in finance to Christian finance professionals through Redeemer Presbyterian’s Center for Faith & Work and founded a faith & work ministry at the Queens-based King’s Cross and Living Faith Community churches. He holds a master of arts in religion from Westminster Theological Seminary and a masters in theology from the University of Aberdeen. He and his lively twelve-year-old son reside in Oxford.