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Calling and Creation

Theology, Vocation and Work

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Description

Addresses the intellectual and practical difficulties Christians face when thinking about faith and work in a modern context.

The book offers a critical examination of the Faith and Work Movement-an influential and well-funded social movement that seeks to help some Christians find religious meaning in secular professions. Reading “calling” and “vocation” through the doctrine of creation, it develops a theological account of human selfhood that sits, in several respects, uneasily with the Faith and Work Movement and with a range of other popular approaches to Christian thinking about work. Engaging figures and ideas from Max Weber to Effective Altruism, this book charts a path through contemporary confusions surrounding calling, vocation, and work.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Seeing and Calling
2. History of Vocation: Calling and Contradiction
3. Vocation and the Problem of Modern Work
4. What are the Theologians Saying About Work Today
5. Faith and Work and the Unity of the Called
6. Creation and Being Call-ers
7. Creaturely Ethics, Riddles, and Going On
8. Signs of Home

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 01 Dec 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 224
ISBN 9780567727558
Imprint T&T Clark
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Tyler Womack

Tyler Womack is Adjunct Instructor in the Theology…

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