Munca: perspective antice, biblice și patristice
Work: Ancient, Biblical, and Patristic Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to re-frame the activity of work in the list of virtues in order to achieve the Christian goal of salvation. Realizing the acute danger of deterioration of the quality of labour, a degradation that is becoming increasingly evident in contemporary society and mentality, as a result of a wrong understanding and practice of the characteristics of this virtue, this article aims to draw some marginal notes aimed at restoring labour activity to a normal and healthy path. A „chronological” table will be used for this purpose: beginning with the antiquity perspective in terms of the place and ideology of labour, continuing with the Old Testament teaching (focusing mainly on the moments of the life of our original ancestors in the Garden of Eden – Adam and Eve –, as well as that of their fall and their banishment from Eden, while highlighting the repercussions that arose as a result of this fall) and the New Testament teaching (focusing on the doctrine contained in the Pauline work, especially in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians), and concluding with the revelation paradigm in the vision of St. Antony the Great in relation to the practice of work and its adoption, preservation and development within monastic communities (both early and contemporary) and by Christians in the world. The conceptions and ideologies of work that have survived in all these periods will be outlined, but exhaustiveness is beyond the scope of this article.

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