Co-creation and Gift: A Critical Study of Theologies of Work
- Submitting institution
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University of Stirling
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1527273
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- People’s Publishing House
- ISBN
- 978-7-01-014558-7
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- A renewed theological framework for understanding human work in the modern world, through critical reflection on the two main theological approaches to human work after the Reformation: Protestant 'vocation' on the one hand, and Catholic 'co-creation' on the other. This dialectic reflection leads to Aufhebung of both approaches, bringing a theological understanding of human work as a 'gift'. This new understanding does not negate completely the validity in both 'vocation' and 'co-creation,'; it hopes to overcome the problems within them, providing a contemporary theology of work that deals with, more directly, the structural alienation of work in modern capitalist society.
