Releasing Life’s Potential: A Pastoral Theology of Work

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• 作者：Donald Capps ; Nathan Carlin
• 关键词：Theology of work ; Pastoral theology ; Erik H. Erikson ; Marie ; Dominique Chenu ; The material world ; Co ; creator ; Nature and grace ; Liberation
• 刊名：Pastoral Psychology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：65
• 期：6
• 页码：863-883
• 全文大小：441 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Religious Studies
  Cross Cultural Psychology
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6679
• 卷排序：65

文摘

Following a brief discussion of Erik H. Erikson’s (1958) reflections on Martin Luther’s redefinitions of work, this article focuses on the theology of work as presented in Marie-Dominique Chenu’s (1955, 1963) The Theology of Work. It suggests that Chenu’s theology of work provides a valuable foundation for a pastoral theology of work in that it emphasizes the role of work in releasing the potentialities inherent in the material world and in the individual who is engaged in this creative process. It notes Chenu’s emphasis on the historical transformation from a craft-oriented to a machine-oriented work environment, on the emergence of a conscious awareness among humans of the effects of work, on Christian understandings of humans as co-creators with God, on humans’ creative role in the transformation of the material world, on the role grace plays in the creative process, and on the role of work in human liberation.