Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father

by Proctor, Minna

• ISBN13: 9780670033263
• ISBN10: 067003326X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-03
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

A woman who grew up in a family without ties to organized religion describes how her university professor father unsuccessfully attempted to become an Episcopalian priest in his sixties, in a spiritual analysis of the concept of a religious calling as based on the author's numerous conversations with her father as well as interviews with members of the clergy and religious scholars. 15,000 first printing.

Table of Contents

There Was the Word	xi
My Father	1	(74)
Calling and Discernment	75	(48)
The Process	123	(72)
Polemics	195	(60)
Acknowledgments	255	(2)
Notes	257	(6)
Index	263