In this episode of Ergasia, we conclude our two-part examination of the ways in which the experience of those who have been harmed by modernity's construction of work and economy can be integrated with the Scriptural witness of God's love for humanity and call to the Church to engage in a ministry of prophetic solidarity with suffering humanity. How does the idolatry of hard work deflect attention away from the harm it causes by misleading its own victims into finding someone else to blame? How does the biblical account of the raising of Lazarus from the dead critique our own culturally ingrained fear of death, thereby encouraging us to persist in our false belief in the centrality of hard work in human life? How is the Church called to repent of its own participation in the idolatry of hard work and the living death it imposes on humanity?
References
Bottomley, John Hard Work Never Killed Anybody: How the Idolisation of Work Sustains this Deadly Lie. Northcote: Morning Star Publishing, 2015.
Episode 30 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part XI - Introducing The Issues
Episode 29 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part X: God‘s Governance in the Midst of Tough Circumstances
Episode 27 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part IXa: Work and Life Renewed – Prophetic Dreaming, Integrating Experience and Scripture
Episode 26 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part VIII: Work and Life Renewed - Deep Listening
Episode 25 – Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part VII: Prophetic Resistance to the Forgetting of Injustice
Episode 24 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part VI: The Economic Factors In Work-Related Death, Grief, and Trauma..
Episode 23 – Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part V: The Death and Transformation of the Theologies of Hospitality and Pastoral Care
Episode 22 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part IV: Creating Victims, Silencing Grief After Work Related Trauma
Episode 21 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part III: The Foundation of Prophetic Ministry, Listening with a Pastoral Heart
Episode 20 – Hard Work Never Killed Anyone, Part II: Idolatry’s Bitter Fruit, Silencing Suffering and Injustice
Episode 19 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, Part I: Subduing Death, Modernity‘s Heroic Intent
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Episode 18 - The Dream Betrayed, Part VI: The Church As Community of Justice
Episode 17 - The Dream Betrayed Part V: Redeeming Working Class Reality
Episode 16: The Dream Betrayed, Part IV: The Dominance of Sin
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