Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2005.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue : some Biblical texts on calling — 1. Callings to a Christian life : vocations in the early church, 100-500 — Letter to the Romans / Ignatius of Antioch — Dialogue with Trypho / Justin Martyr — Martyrdom of Perpetua — Who is the rich man that shall be saved? / Clement of Alexandria — Apology / Tertullian — life of Antony / Athanasius — Life of Macrina / Gregory of Nyssa — Lausiac history / Palladius — Sayings of the desert fathers — Confessions / Augustine — 2. Called to religious life : vocations in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 — Institutes / John Cassian — Life of St. Martin / Sulpicius Severus — rule of St. Benedict / Benedict of Nursia — Letters / Bernard of Clairvaux — Chronicle of the crusade of St. Louis / John de Joinville — life of St. Francis / Bonaventure — flowing light of the godhead / Mechthild of Magdeburg — Summa Theologiae / Thomas Aquinas — treasure of the City of Ladies / Christine de Pisan — mission of Joan of Arc — imitation of Christ / Thomas a Kempis — 3. Every Work a Calling : vocations after the Reformation, 1500-1800 — To the Christian nobility of the German Nation / Martin Luther — Gospel for the early Christmas service / Martin Luther — Trade and usury / Martin Luther — Whether soldiers, too, can be saved / Martin Luther — sermon on keeping children in school / Martin Luther — Cherished instructions on sin, excommunication, and the community of goods / Ulrich Stadler — Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin — spiritual exercises / Ignatius Loyola — life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself / Teresa of Avila — Reply to Sor Philothea / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz — treatise of the vocations / William Perkins — temple, or the country parson / George Herbert — collar / George Herbert — Directions about our labor and callings / Richard Baxter — pilgrim’s progress / John Bunyan — Journal / George Fox — declaration from the poor oppressed people of England / Gerrard Winstanley — serious call to
- 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. –BOOK JACKET.
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