The church and work
Subtitle: the ecclesiological grounding of good work
By: Joshua R. Sweeden
Contributors: Cartwright, Michael, writer of foreword
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781556352058
Subjects: Work; Christianity; Christian ethics
Description: Beginning with the conviction that Christian faith permeates all aspects of life, Joshua Sweeden explores Christian understandings of "good work" in relationship to ethics, community practice, and ecclesial witness. In The Church and Work, Sweeden provides a substantial contribution to the theological conversation about work by proposing an ecclesiological grounding for good work. He argues that many of the prominent theological proposals for good work are too abstract from context and demonstrates how the church can be understood as generative for both the theology and practice of good work. This needed ecclesiological development takes seriously the role of context in the ongoing discernment of good work and specifically explores how ecclesial life and practice shape and inform good work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Cartwright; title: Introduction: Toward an ecclesiology of work; title: Prominent motifs of work in theology and modernity; title: Theology and work: the contemporary conversation; title: Good work and the church; title: Work of the people; title: The work of a public.