Accordingly, it encourages the use of other resources to replace the
amount of human work required in production.
In Reformation theology justification is not a mere
negation of human works but is itself utterly dependent on the classical dogmas of the Trinity and the incarnation - for it is per Christum.
He has absorbed an authentic understanding of the Church's social teachings, and of the true meaning and
value of human work.
This question arose from Luther's deep religious or existential insight into the
inauthenticity of all human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical aspiration of traditional Christianity.
I do not believe people would act that way as we have a long
history of humans working together in social groups for survival relying on each other and taking care of sick and injured and protecting the weaker child bearing females in the group.
Free markets, then, that allow for entrepreneurial activities help guard the sacredness of human freedom and the
dignity of human work.
The bomb simultaneously reveals both the power and the
weakness of human works — which supports both the Pelagian and the Augustinian views.
g) In this sense, it is right to speak of a struggle against an economic system, if the latter is understood as a method of upholding the absolute predominance of capital, the possession of the means of production and of the land, in contrast to the free and personal
nature of human work.
One of Man's greatest accomplishments was when
thousands of humans worked tirelessly for months manufacturing millions of fake dinosauer bones and burying them, sometimes deep in mountains.
So faith is not a special
sort of human work, nor is it a divine work in the heart of the unbeliever.
If that
negation of human works (and by implication of all human structure and conduct) is what Christianity is, then morality, tradition, authority, the Church, sanctification, discipleship, liturgical order, and even dogma are secondary at best.
«The basis for determining the
value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person....