Calling and Creation
Theology, Vocation and Work
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.
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Table of Contents
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 | Dec 01 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780567727541 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























