Our Secular Vocation: Rethinking the Church’s Calling to the Marketplace

by J. Daryl Charles

Publisher:

B&H

, 2023

Overview

The divide between the sacred and the secular life has dogged Christians for centuries. Even today, many Christians and church leaders still assume that the workplace is inferior to pastoring, Bible study, mission trips, and the like. This volume provides a different approach: it surveys the persistence of the sacred-secular divide in Christian history to develop a more robust theology of vocation while engaging with both the Old and New Testament. Charles offers a vision for numerous ways Christians are called to live faithfully in the so-called secular world.

Key Features

• Offers a vision for numerous ways Christians are called to live faithfully in the so-called secular world
• Surveys the persistence of the sacred-secular divide in Christian history
• Develops a more robust theology of vocation while engaging with both the Old and New Testament

Product Details

• Title: Our Secular Vocation: Rethinking the Church’s Calling to the Marketplace
• Author: J. Daryl Charles
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 324
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Church and Vocation; Work
• ISBNs: 9781430077664, 9781087765761, 1087765765, 1087765773, 9781087765778, 1430077662
• Resource ID: LLS:RSCLRCLLMRKTPLC
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-09T17:50:12Z

About J. Daryl Charles

J. Daryl Charles (Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary) is director and senior fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought Practice, Bryan College, and served as the 2007-1008 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion Public Life, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics, of Princeton University. He is the co-author (with David D. Corey) of Justice in an Age of Terror and (with David B. Capes) of Thriving in Babylon: Essays in Honor of A. J. Conyers and the author of Retrieving Natural Law. The translator of Roots of Wisdom by Claus Westermann, he serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Pro Ecclesia and Cultural Encounters, and is contributing editor of the journal Touchstone.