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Semeia 73: “Reading With”: Exploration of Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

I think I can safely say that the reason why theologians have had so little success in the construction of a theology of work is that professional theologians today are not workers, are not members of the working class, and therefore do not have first hand experience of work—at least not in the sense of labour or manual work. As theologians and academics, our experience of work, intellectual work, can be of value in constructing a theology of work; but it is not the primary experience.
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