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How do we actually discern what our vocation is?

Brent talks with Brian Brock in the second part of our series on his Baker Books title ‘Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness’.

Brian holds a personal Chair in Moral and Political Theology.  He joined the University of Aberdeen following postdoctoral studies at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and a doctorate in Christian Ethics at King’s College London. Brian is the author of a number of books.    

(0:50) Dust and the ground;
(1:40) Genesis and ethics;
(2:30) Vocation;
(4:30) Discerning vocation in community;
(5:30) The church and vocation;
(10:40) Noah’s Ark a new Eden;
(11:20) The Tabernacle and Temple;
(12:05) Jesus;
(12:40) Modernity’s Edenic alternatives;
(14:30) Work desacrilized;
(17:30) Eden and mission;
(19:00) Gardening in a fallen world. 

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.abdn.ac.uk/people/b.brock

www.amazon.com.au/Joining-Creations-Praise-Theological-Creatureliness/dp/1540963268

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