New Book

Another intriguing book just came across my desk today, in the Paternoster Theological Monographs series. Here are the details:

A Theology of Work
Work and the New Creation
Paternoster Theological Monographs - PTM
by
Paternoster Press,
xvi + 207 pages,
Paper
ISBN: 1842273329
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~PPCOSTHEOLO

Description:
Given that so much of our contemporary lives are spent working and that so many major decisions and issues in life revolve around our work, it is surprising just how little serious theological reflection there is on the subject. A Theology of Work makes work itself the subject of theological enquiry. From within Christian doctrine it asks the pressing questions 'what is work and work's place in God's economy and thus, how shold we be carrying out our work'. Through dialogue with Jurgen Moltmann, Pope John Paul II and others, this book develops a genitive 'theology of work'. It offers a normative theological definition of work and a model for a theological ethics of work that shows work's nature, value and meaning now, and, quite uniquely, eschatalogiically related to the new creation. Throughout the book it is argued that work in its essence is about transformation and, as such, it is an activity consisting of three dynamically interrelated dimensions: the instrumental, relational, and ontological.

I tried to paste part of the introduction, but it wouldn't take...