Liberation and Idolatry at Work: Godâs Judgement and Mercy in Covenant Faithfulness

John Bottomley

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696235_019

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This chapter offers a personal reflection on parish life as experienced through a journey from entrapment to flourishing. All forms of everyday work may reveal Godâs faithfulness in judgement and mercy to transform human wholeness. Womenâs housework revealed God in the authorâs parish ministry. In urban ministry it was paid work that re-formed his understanding of God, and in retirementâs voluntary work the pain of nightmares in intensive care provided the interpretive lens for a reappraisal of work-related ministry. Whatever the form of work, there is no escaping the ideological justifications for workâs violence, a violence that reveals the idolatry of capitalist beliefsâ assault on Godâs holistic purpose for human life. As Godâs judgement on the authorâs captivity to parish ministry liberated him for a new vocation in peopleâs working life, so work was no longer the ultimate source of his liberation. Godâs judgement on his privileged working life revealed the evil on which the spirit of violence depends for its limited but deathly claim against human flourishing.

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Transforming Work

Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World

Series:Â Theology and Mission in World Christianity, Volume: 30

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2024

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