Human Beings as Co-Creators with God:The Search for Workers’ Dignity in Capitalist Society
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This paper begins with a question raised by a Christian Asian migrant worker at a sushi restaurant in Toronto, “Can the God of the employer and the God of the employee be the same God?” The question contains his perplexity about the sharply divided reality between employers and employees in capitalist society, and about which side God is standing on. In order to engage in the worker’s experience theologically, I will explore the meaning of human beings as workers and human labor through a theological lens. To discuss this, I will critically analyze Laborem exercens (On Labour), the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II and To Work and to Love by Dorothee Sölle. The authors of both documents are engaged in a theology of creation in order to understand the human being and the nature of work. Both also engage in a critical dialogue with Marxism in order to address the distortion of labor and the laboring human in capitalism, while maintaining their own understanding of the human and work. Through the dialogue with two authors’ works, I will maintain that human beings are created as working beings in the image of God the Creator and called to participate in co-creation with God by seeking solidarity in resisting a dominant ideology which deprives workers of their dignity.
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This paper begins with a question raised by a Christian Asian migrant worker at a sushi restaurant in Toronto, “Can the God of the employer and the God of the employee be the same God?” The question contains his perplexity about the sharply divided reality between employers and employees in capitalist society, and about which side God is standing on. In order to engage in the worker’s experience theologically, I will explore the meaning of human beings as workers and human labor through a theological lens. To discuss this, I will critically analyze Laborem exercens (On Labour), the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II and To Work and to Love by Dorothee Sölle. The authors of both documents are engaged in a theology of creation in order to understand the human being and the nature of work. Both also engage in a critical dialogue with Marxism in order to address the distortion of labor and the laboring human in capitalism, while maintaining their own understanding of the human and work. Through the dialogue with two authors’ works, I will maintain that human beings are created as working beings in the image of God the Creator and called to participate in co-creation with God by seeking solidarity in resisting a dominant ideology which deprives workers of their dignity.
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