Comments on: The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work (aftermath 2) http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/09/the-heavenly-good-of-earthly-work-aftermath-2.html A random walk over culture, art, christianity, etc. with occasional photographs... Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Paul http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/09/the-heavenly-good-of-earthly-work-aftermath-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-17 Paul Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:28:00 +0000 http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/?p=79#comment-17 Hi Jonny, Thanks for the thoughts. Cosden is more interested in whether what we do now has lasting impact as part of the continuity of creation, rather than whether vocations themselves are eternal.<br /><br />So, by 'eternal value', I guess I meant that the products last not the vocations themselves. Hi Jonny, Thanks for the thoughts. Cosden is more interested in whether what we do now has lasting impact as part of the continuity of creation, rather than whether vocations themselves are eternal.

So, by ‘eternal value’, I guess I meant that the products last not the vocations themselves.

]]> By: jonnyjpg http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/09/the-heavenly-good-of-earthly-work-aftermath-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-18 jonnyjpg Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:34:00 +0000 http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/?p=79#comment-18 >"After all, maybe it is the case that some vocations have a greater eternal value & we just have to live with that. Or perhaps we have to accept that the eternal value of my work is indirect, in that I support those who have a more obvious impact."<br /><br />i'm not convined that talking in terms of vocations is the answer - but perhaps we can think in temrs of the way one carries out there work/vocation.<br /><br />Paul talks bout Love being the eternal action. And the pastor can do this as much as the engineer, and the artist can forget to do this as much as the evangelist.<br /><br />That does leave us with what heppens to what we produce, make, create. And I know other commentor have talked about how the scriptures start in a Garden and end in a city [although it is a city that 'decends from heaven']<br /><br />Are any vocations eternal? We just don't know the nature of work in the age to come, but we do have clue about the continuity of creation. Surely evangelists are going to have to take up gardening? [slightly tongue in cheek there]<br /><br />does the author cover this<br />- or did i miss that in your review >”After all, maybe it is the case that some vocations have a greater eternal value & we just have to live with that. Or perhaps we have to accept that the eternal value of my work is indirect, in that I support those who have a more obvious impact.”

i’m not convined that talking in terms of vocations is the answer – but perhaps we can think in temrs of the way one carries out there work/vocation.

Paul talks bout Love being the eternal action. And the pastor can do this as much as the engineer, and the artist can forget to do this as much as the evangelist.

That does leave us with what heppens to what we produce, make, create. And I know other commentor have talked about how the scriptures start in a Garden and end in a city [although it is a city that 'decends from heaven']

Are any vocations eternal? We just don’t know the nature of work in the age to come, but we do have clue about the continuity of creation. Surely evangelists are going to have to take up gardening? [slightly tongue in cheek there]

does the author cover this
- or did i miss that in your review

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