For centuries, work remained on the back burner of theological thinking, often making appearances only in negative references. Though men and women have always struggled to find God's perspective on work and working, seldom have their results been recorded in a way that made them accessible across cultures and down through to future generations. Even when great Christian thinkers throughout the centuries have written about work, most of their efforts have been lost, or find themselves consigned to the dusty corners of libraries in obscure texts, waiting for the moment when their truths capture the attention and imagination of a new set of readers.
Meanwhile, generation after generation of workers and the people seeking to equip them have been forced to re-discover those timeless principles on their own. Now, perhaps for the first time in human history, technology, worker interest and scholarly expertise have merged, making possible the exploration and recording of a comprehensive body-a theology-of Scripture's timeless truths and the timely application of those truths into working cultures everywhere.
The Theology of Work Project consists of members from across the spectrum of the Christian faith, working to explore, develop, record and disseminate a Theology of Work that will serve as a scaffold for researchers, writers, teachers and others to build upon.
The Theology of Work is intended to be:
1. | rooted in the entire Bible, rather than only isolated texts |
2. | timeless, in the sense of elucidating truths about work in Christian perspective that do not depend on particularities of the work or the worker, which tend to change over time. |
3. | timely, in the sense of providing processes by which reliable answers can be developed for the myriad questions that arise in specific workplace situations, which tend to depend heavily on the particularities of the context in which they arise. |
4. | understandable to all of its intended audiences without requiring specialized theological terms. |
5. | as broadly acceptable as possible, without departing from orthodox/historical Christian theology. |
6. | cognizant of the major published works in the theology of work, whether in agreement or disagreement at various points. |
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