Part six of a series. On my list of four things we can learn from the sacraments about vocation, the fourth is: My daily work participates in the ongoing drama of the world’s redemption. In the very delicate theological tap dance that constituted my last post, the key problem was relating creation and redemption. Sacraments, I proposed, are the legacy…
Part five of a series. On my list of four things we can learn from the sacraments about vocation, the third is: My daily work is a means of grace. “Means of grace” is a phrase used differently by different traditions. The goal in this series is to avoid getting too bogged down in differences over the sacraments, but here…
Part four of a series. On my list of four things we can learn from the sacraments about vocation, the second is: My daily work uses material objects and actions as signs of spiritual realities. We began to look at the significance of this intersection last time, when we saw how the sacraments involve God having entered into time-space history to…
Part three of a series. On my list of four things we can learn from the sacraments about vocation, the first is: My daily work is Christocentric, and this fact is ecclesially proclaimed and historically enacted. When I do my daily work, I am to do it with Christ at the center of my cosmology. It is in Christ that all…
Part two of a series. If Jesus knew what he was doing when he created the sacraments, we would expect them to have much to teach us about our calling in daily life. On the list of questions that I identified in the initial post of this series as needing to be distinguished before we could relate the sacraments to…
Part one of a series. Jenn Woodruff Tait is right that one of the biggest theological lacunae in the movement is our inattention to the sacraments. Having already written a post for this blog entitled “Let’s Bicker about Eschatology!“, naturally if Jenn invites me to bicker about the sacraments my only response is: “Challenge Accepted!” So here’s a blog series…
Recently, Greg Forster addressed in this space the question of whether or not the faith and work movement is overrun by Reformed folks, or at least by their theology. His answer surprised me. He thinks the answer is “no.” Greg actually says a lot of great things in that post which I agree with, but his contention that the theological leadership…
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