Responsive Labor A Theology of Work

Name: Responsive Labor A Theology of Work
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ISBN: 9780664230210

ISBN-10: 0664230210

ISBN-13: 9780664230210

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: David H. Jensen

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Most Christians work outside the church, so for many?if not most?of us, daily labor seems divorced from Christian beliefs and ethics. Work is an inevitable factor of human existence, and yet we do not have appropriate theological resources to help us reflect on its nature and meaning in light of Christian understanding and contemporary American culture. How can we as Christians understand our work as a dimension of our faith? After several years of extensive research, which included numerous interviews with working Christians across the United States, David Jensen provides a full look at the issue, taking seriously the situation of workers in American society and drawing on the insights of…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

David H. Jensen is Professor in the Clarence N. and Betty B. Frierson Chair of Reformed Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He is editor of The Lord and Giver of Life: Perspectives on Constructive Pneumatology and author of Responsive Labor: A Theology of Work and Living Hope: The Future and Christian Faith, all published by Westminster John Knox Press.




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