Under the unpredictable plant : an exploration in vocational holiness / [print]
Eugene H. Peterson.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans ; 1992. Leominster, England : Gracewing, (c)1992.
- ix, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Undercapitalized Vocations. -- Vocational Idolatry. -- The Jonah Story -- Buying Passage to Tarshish. Jonah Disobedient. -- Escape to Tarshish. -- Stay Where You Are. -- Ecclesiastical Pornography. -- The Travel Agent in Joppa. Jonah Obedient. -- Professionalized Obedience. -- The Kind of Pastor We in Fact Are -- Escaping the Storm. Repudiating Tarshish Religion. -- What Do You Mean, You Sleeper? -- The American Religious Ship. -- Throw Me into the Sea! Recovering a Gospel Vocation. -- Songs and Stories and Red Bandannas. -- God and Passion. -- The Cornfield. -- Vocational Holiness. -- A Slow Leak. -- The Euclidean Threat. -- A Karamazov in Every Home. -- Seed-Planting Dostoevsky. -- Jonah's Sea Storm and Paul's Shipwreck -- In the Belly of the Fish. Conditions. -- The Bottom Line. -- The Golden Calf. -- Hogging the Show. Askesis. -- Three Days in the Belly. -- Holy Saturday. -- Prettyfeather. -- Monastery without Walls. Prayer. -- The School of the Psalms. -- Rule. -- The Contemplative Pastor -- Finding the Road to Nineveh. Geography. -- James Joyce's Ulysses. -- A Day's Journey into Nineveh. -- Wendell Berry. -- The Congregation Is Topsoil. -- Spiritual Growth versus Religious Cancer. Eschatology. -- Yet Forty Days. -- St. John's Revelation. -- Equally Yoked. -- Eschatological Laundry List -- Quarreling with God under the Unpredictable Plant. The Stunted Imagination. -- Leonard Storm. -- A Hugely Dimensioned Destiny. -- The Mess of Creativity. -- Bruce. The Recovered Vocation. -- Paradigm Shift. -- Messiahs, Managers, and Spiritual Directors. -- Reuben Lance. -- Karen. -- Making an Ending.