An interesting thought for a person who knows the Work and is a Christian...: seeing Work practices in the context of the imitation of Christ.
One advantage is it can give a complete picture, pull everything into a contained whole.
Another thing is it could give courage to face the world as something different from the world, rather than hang back and be fearful of seeming different and thus staying conformed, ultimately, to what the world demands.
Once a person gets past the common stumbling block of thinking they *are* Jesus, or the other of engaging in worldly moralism instead of self-interested, conscious, self-aware glorifying of God.
[Interesting, I spent about 10 minutes searching the internet for an antonym of moralism, or moralize, and couldn't find anything, so I struggled to finish the above sentence. At first instead of 'glorifying of God' I had 'presence', but changed it to glorifying of God. So in a sense, I suppose, the opposite of moralism is glorifying God.]
Perhaps in another real way repentance can be an antonym of moralism.
11.06.2011
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