Callings

by Placher, William C.

• ISBN13: 9780802829276
• ISBN10: 0802829279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(12)
Prologue: Some Biblical Texts on Calling	13	(10)
1. Callings to a Christian Life: Vocations in the Early Church, 100-500
Introduction	23	(10)
Ignatius of Antioch	33	(2)
Letter to the Romans
Justin Martyr	35	(4)
Dialogue with Trypho
The Martyrdom of Perpetua	39	(8)
Clement of Alexandria	47	(4)
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
Tertullian	51	(8)
Apology
Athanasius	59	(6)
The Life of Antony
Gregory of Nyssa	65	(8)
The Life of Macrina
Palladius	73	(7)
The Lausiac History
Sayings of the Desert Fathers	80	(3)
Augustine	83	(24)
Confessions
2. Called to Religious Life: Vocations in the Middle Ages, 500-1500
Introduction	107	(8)
John Cassian	115	(8)
Institutes
Sulpicius Severus	123	(5)
Life of St. Martin
Benedict of Nursia	128	(4)
The Rule of St. Benedict
Bernard of Clairvaux	132	(8)
Letters
John de Joinville	140	(3)
Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis
Bonaventure	143	(7)
The Life of St. Francis
Mechthild of Magdeburg	150	(4)
The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Thomas Aquinas	154	(22)
Summa Theologiae
Christine de Pisan	176	(14)
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
The Mission of Joan of Arc	190	(6)
Thomas à Kempis	196	(9)
The Imitation of Christ
3. Every Work a Calling: Vocations after the Reformation, 1500-1800
Introduction	205	(6)
Martin Luther	211	(2)
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Martin Luther	213	(2)
Gospel for the Early Christmas Service
Martin Luther	215	(2)
Trade and Usury
Martin Luther	217	(3)
Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved
Martin Luther	220	(7)
A Sermon on Keeping Children in School
Ulrich Stadler	227	(5)
Cherished Instructions on Sin, Excommunication, and the Community of Goods
John Calvin	232	(7)
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Ignatius Loyola	239	(5)
The Spiritual Exercises
Teresa of Ávila	244	(10)
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	254	(8)
Reply to Sor Philothea
William Perkins	262	(11)
A Treatise of the Vocations
George Herbert	273	(4)
The Temple, or The Country Parson
George Herbert	277	(1)
The Collar	277	(1)
Richard Baxter	278	(8)
Directions about Our Labor and Callings
John Bunyan	286	(8)
The Pilgrim's Progress
George Fox	294	(6)
Journal
Gerrard Winstanley	300	(3)
A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England
William Law	303	(7)
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Jonathan Edwards	310	(6)
Personal Narrative
John Wesley	316	(3)
Journal
John Wesley	319	(3)
"Sermon 28: Sermon on the Mount-8"
John Wesley	322	(5)
"Sermon 51: The Good Steward"
4. Christian Callings in a Post-Christian World, 1800-Present
Introduction	327	(6)
Søren Kierkegaard	333	(10)
Fear and Trembling
John Henry Newman	343	(6)
Divine Calls
Feodor Dostoevsky	349	(4)
The Brothers Karamazov
Horace Bushnell	353	(6)
Every Man's Life a Plan of God
Pope Leo XIII	359	(12)
Rerum Novarum
Max Weber	371	(6)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Walter Rauschenbusch	377	(8)
Christianity and the Social Crisis
Howard Thurman	385	(4)
What Shall I Do With My Life?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	389	(11)
The Cost of Discipleship
Simone Weil	400	(5)
Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
Dorothy L. Sayers	405	(8)
"Vocation in Work"
Dorothy Day	413	(8)
Selected Writings
Thomas Merton	421	(8)
No Man Is an Island
Karl Barth	429	(16)
Church Dogmatics
Index	445