Worth Doing: Fallenness, Finitude, and Work in the Real World

"The conversations around faith and work often overlook the realities of our limitations. In fact, they often look at our limitations as problematic rather than a feature of what it means to be human and to work. David Buschart and Ryan Tafilowski suggest that there is more to this conversation than just productivity or even calling when it comes to work. How are we to work in a fallen world. This methodological shift in our theology of work requires that we deconstruct two harmful work mythologies which are at risk of being unwittingly reinforced by the faith and work movement: "You Are What You Do" and "Do What You Love," both of which rest on dubious anthropological foundations and a questionable theology of vocation. Paradoxically, a realistic and healthy theology of work will be a theology in which work is de-emphasized and de-centered"-- Provided by publisher.Read less