"As Christians our ultimate accountability is to God and hence to the spiritual values of justice the common good sustainability and to the wholeness of the community. This may conflict with the accountability we have to the organisation the state the government the corporate institution or the place of work." [Quote]
Johnson's writing shows a commitment to an incarnational theology -"If we work out a 'vocation' in the world then work allows participation in God's history. ... Belief in an incarnational God sees his activity in all things in the world. Teilhard de Chardin said: 'By virtue of the creation and still more of the incarnation nothing here below is profane for those know how to see; work therefore is of God.'" [Quote]
"We are called to he co-creators with God. This links science and theology. ... Creation was once understood to he a once-for-all act. Now we believe creation is an on-going process.
"There must he some reservation about the sense of calling introduced by Luther who linked the calling to a job to duty towards God. ... Luther and Calvin had very distinct views on work and its place in the salvation of man; they were at odds with the Catholic thinking of their time but progenitors of the capitalist ethos." [Quote]