Episode 28 - Hard Work Never Killed Anybody Part IXb: Work and Life Renewed – Prophetic Dreaming, Integrating Experience and Scripture

In this episode of Ergasia, we conclude our two-part examination of the ways in which the experience of those who have been harmed by modernity's construction of work and economy can be integrated with the Scriptural witness of God's love for humanity and call to the Church to engage in a ministry of prophetic solidarity with suffering humanity. How does the idolatry of hard work deflect attention away from the harm it causes by misleading its own victims into finding someone else to blame? How does the biblical account of the raising of Lazarus from the dead critique our own culturally ingrained fear of death, thereby encouraging us to persist in our false belief in the centrality of hard work in human life? How is the Church called to repent of its own participation in the idolatry of hard work and the living death it imposes on humanity?

References

Bottomley, John Hard Work Never Killed Anybody: How the Idolisation of Work Sustains this Deadly Lie. Northcote: Morning Star Publishing, 2015.