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Human Work, Divine Spirit, and New Creation: Toward a Pneumatological Understanding of Work

Human Work, Divine Spirit, and New Creation: Toward a Pneumatological Understanding of Work 173 Human Work, Divine Spirit, and New Creation: Toward a Pneumatological Understanding of Work Miroslav Volf* Introduction The purpose of this article is to suggest and make plausible a pneumatological understanding of human work. One could think that with such an introductory statement, I have indicated clearly enough the subject matter to be considered and should proceed without further explanation. But this is most likely not the case. So a further word of clarification is needed. Surprisingly enough, a lack of clarity concerning the subject matter at hand-understand- ` ing work from the perspective of the Spirit-lies less in the obscure ' nature of the mysterious Spirit of God than in the vagueness of our concept of mundane work. Thus in order to indicate clearly the scope of the inquiry I need to interject a word about what I understand work to be. In industrial societies we have come to operate with a rather limited definition of work. For us work is related primarily either to formal employment or to activity resulting in monetary gain. Everything else is, strictly speaking, not work (except, of course, some wearisome activities which we have to do but for which we are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Human Work, Divine Spirit, and New Creation: Toward a Pneumatological Understanding of Work

Pneuma , Volume 9 (1): 173 – Jan 1, 1987

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Brill
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© 1987 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0272-0965
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1570-0747
DOI
10.1163/157007487X00155
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173 Human Work, Divine Spirit, and New Creation: Toward a Pneumatological Understanding of Work Miroslav Volf* Introduction The purpose of this article is to suggest and make plausible a pneumatological understanding of human work. One could think that with such an introductory statement, I have indicated clearly enough the subject matter to be considered and should proceed without further explanation. But this is most likely not the case. So a further word of clarification is needed. Surprisingly enough, a lack of clarity concerning the subject matter at hand-understand- ` ing work from the perspective of the Spirit-lies less in the obscure ' nature of the mysterious Spirit of God than in the vagueness of our concept of mundane work. Thus in order to indicate clearly the scope of the inquiry I need to interject a word about what I understand work to be. In industrial societies we have come to operate with a rather limited definition of work. For us work is related primarily either to formal employment or to activity resulting in monetary gain. Everything else is, strictly speaking, not work (except, of course, some wearisome activities which we have to do but for which we are

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Published: Jan 1, 1987

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