RT Article
T1 Religionen og hverdagslivet: Arbejde som gudstjeneste
JF Dansk teologisk tidsskrift
VO 83
IS 1/2
SP 41
OP 52
A1 Bach-Nielsen, Carsten 1955-
LA Danish
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1745175644
AB In 1855, the Scottish minister John Caird delivered a sermon before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg. It made such an impression that the queen demanded it to be printed. The sermon text was Romans 12,11 and the sermon was about religion in common life. Is was not concerned with religion as pertaining to specific practices, times, and places in everyday life. Religion covers everything. Religion is a science and an art to be performed together with any profession or business of daily life. The Presbyterian view is that work itself is as such a glorification of God. Therefore, the sermon was more of a meditation on the Calvinist concept of work. It was soon translated into German and published by the Prussian ambassador to London Baron von Bunsen - and it rapidly became a success in Germany. Bunsen added more specific Lutheran terms to the translation such as calling and duty. In 1857, it appeared in Danish translated by W. Hjort but apparently did not become a success in Lutheran Denmark. A few decades later, however, as part of the age of industrialization the new idea of work as a performance of Christianity was widely accepted.
K1 C.C.J. von Bunsen
K1 Calvinist concept of Work
K1 John Caird
K1 Presbyterianism
K1 Prussian Union of Churches
K1 W. Hjort
DO 10.7146/dtt.v83i1-2.124182