The Acton Institute has put together a sample from my new book Working for Our Neighbor: A Lutheran Primer on Vocation, Economics, and Ordinary Life. It doesn’t include the new things I get into in this particular publication–much of what is excerpted here is developed in more detail in God at Work–but this gives a summary of Luther’s neighbor-centered ethic and the purpose of every vocation (namely, to love and serve our neighbors). (more…)
Again, I have just published a third book on vocation: Working for Our Neighbor: A Lutheran Primer on Vocation, Economics, and Ordinary Life
I thought I should give you the publisher’s description and some of the blurbs to give you a better idea of what it goes into. (more…)
I have a new book on vocation that has just come out: Working for Our Neighbor: A Lutheran Primer on Vocation, Economics, and Ordinary Life
The Acton Institute is interested, among other things, in the interplay between faith, work, and economics. Towards that end, the think tank has been publishing a series of books looking at those issues from the perspective of various religious traditions. Acton has published “primers,” really monographs (short books), from the Reformed, Wesleyan, Baptist, and Pentecostal point of view. They needed someone to write a Lutheran primer on the subject, so they asked me.
R. J. Grunewald offers a stimulating critique of Christian T-shirts, movies, and music on the basis of the doctrine of vocation. (more…)
Like a lot of people in this economy, my former student Stephen Williams is “underemployed” right now. But he understands the doctrine of vocation. Read his account of how working in a fast food joint is charged with spiritual significance and gives him occasion to love and serve his neighbors. (more…)
Mark Hemingway excoriates the left’s denigration of work and says that the lack of respect for the working class is what drives Donald Trump’s popularity. And then he offers his proposal for making America great again: Recover Luther’s doctrine of vocation!
Read what he says after the jump. This will kick off a special series of posts on vocation this week (while I’m away in Denmark). As someone* wrote me recently, “vocation has messed with me for the past several years.” Let it mess with you this week!
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