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Dickens’ Bleak Vision: Vocation Gone Wrong

One of the challenges of a proper doctrine of vocation — God’s care for all types of work, their importance, their value, their biblical dignity — is that it so easily slips into a warped, sinful, selfish doctrine.  This shouldn’t surprise us, of course.  Though vocation find its origin in Genesis 2, in the Garden...