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Cover for Work and Community in the Thessalonian Correspondence: An African Communal Reading of Paul’s Work Exhortations

Work and Community in the Thessalonian Correspondence: An African Communal Reading of Paul’s Work Exhortations

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English
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Religion & Spirituality

In this important study, Dr. Gift Mtukwa investigates the relationship between work and community in Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians. Utilizing an African biblical hermeneutic, he provides a theology of work that takes seriously the communal nature of Paul’s context and its parallels with a traditional African worldview.

He combines cultural and historical insight with biblical analysis to demonstrate that work has a critical role to play in community formation. It is neither a burden nor an individual pursuit but a purposeful communal activity done to benefit self and neighbour.

This fresh look at Paul’s work exhortations from a contextualized African perspective offers a powerful reminder that work – like all human endeavors – should have the glory of God and love of others as its goal.

© 2021 Langham Monographs (Ebook): 9781839735202

Release date

Ebook: 31 August 2021