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Vocation : discerning our callings in life / Douglas J. Schuurman. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, (c)2004.Description: xiv, 190 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802801374
  • 9780802801371
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV4740.V633 2004
  • BV4740.S396.V633 2004
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Contents:
1. Vocation under Assault: Can It Be Salvaged? -- 2. Bible on Vocation -- 3. Theology for Vocation Religious Affections and Vocation -- 4. Abuses and Proper Uses of Vocation -- 5. Vocation, Decisions, and the Moral Life I -- 6. Vocation, Decisions, and the Moral Life II -- 7. Vocation in the Wider World.
Summary: The Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, but in recent years central tenets of this doctrine have come under assault. Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life explores current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians. According to Douglas Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God's calling. To renew this biblical perspective, Schuurman argues, Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, and his book helps do just that. Developed in dialogue with audiences as diverse as college students, industrial workers, business leaders, church leaders, and professional theologians and ethicists, the book examines the theological and ethical dimensions of vocation as these have been understood historically and in relation to our modern social setting.
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1. Vocation under Assault: Can It Be Salvaged? -- 2. Bible on Vocation -- 3. Theology for Vocation Religious Affections and Vocation -- 4. Abuses and Proper Uses of Vocation -- 5. Vocation, Decisions, and the Moral Life I -- 6. Vocation, Decisions, and the Moral Life II -- 7. Vocation in the Wider World.

The Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, but in recent years central tenets of this doctrine have come under assault. Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life explores current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians. According to Douglas Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God's calling. To renew this biblical perspective, Schuurman argues, Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, and his book helps do just that. Developed in dialogue with audiences as diverse as college students, industrial workers, business leaders, church leaders, and professional theologians and ethicists, the book examines the theological and ethical dimensions of vocation as these have been understood historically and in relation to our modern social setting.

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