Callings : Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation

by Placher, William C.

• ISBN13: 9780802830487
• ISBN10: 080283048X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Callings gathers select passages on work and vocation from the greatest writers in Christian history. William Placher has written introductions to accompany the selections - an introduction to each of the four main historical sections and a brief introduction to each reading. While the vocational questions faced by Christians have changed through the centuries, this book demonstrates how the distilled wisdom of these saints, preachers, theologians, and teachers remains relevant to Christians today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: Some Biblical Texts on Calling	p. 13
Callings to a Christian Life: Vocations in the Early Church, 100-500
Introduction	p. 23
Letter to the Romans	p. 33
Dialogue with Trypho	p. 35
The Martyrdom of Perpetua	p. 39
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?	p. 47
Apology	p. 51
The Life of Antony	p. 59
The Life of Macrina	p. 65
The Lausiac History	p. 73
Sayings of the Desert Fathers	p. 80
Confessions	p. 83
Called to Religious Life: Vocations in the Middle Ages, 500-1500
Introduction	p. 107
Institutes	p. 115
Life of St. Martin	p. 123
The Rule of St. Benedict	p. 128
Letters	p. 132
Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis	p. 140
The Life of St. Francis	p. 143
The Flowing Light of the Godhead	p. 150
Summa Theologiae	p. 154
The Treasure of the City of Ladies	p. 176
The Mission of Joan of Arc	p. 190
The Imitation of Christ	p. 196
Every Work a Calling: Vocations after the Reformation, 1500-1800
Introduction	p. 205
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation	p. 211
Gospel for the Early Christmas Service	p. 213
Trade and Usury	p. 215
Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved	p. 217
A Sermon on Keeping Children in School	p. 220
Cherished Instructions on Sin, Excommunication, and the Community of Goods	p. 227
Institutes of the Christian Religion	p. 232
The Spiritual Exercises	p. 239
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself	p. 244
Reply to Sor Philothea	p. 254
A Treatise of the Vocations	p. 262
The Temple, or The Country Parson	p. 273
The Collar	p. 277
Directions about Our Labor and Callings	p. 278
The Pilgrim's Progress	p. 286
Journal	p. 294
A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England	p. 300
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life	p. 303
Personal Narrative	p. 310
Journal	p. 316
"Sermon 28: Sermon on the Mount-8"	p. 319
"Sermon 51: The Good Steward"	p. 322
Christian Callings in a Post-Christian World, 1800-Present
Introduction	p. 327
Fear and Trembling	p. 333
Divine Calls	p. 343
The Brothers Karamazov	p. 349
Every Man's Life a Plan of God	p. 353
Rerum Novarum	p. 359
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	p. 371
Christianity and the Social Crisis	p. 377
What Shall I Do With My Life?	p. 385
The Cost of Discipleship	p. 389
Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God	p. 400
"Vocation in Work"	p. 405
Selected Writings	p. 413
No Man Is an Island	p. 421
Church Dogmatics	p. 429
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