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050			_aBV4740 _b.C32 2005
245		0	_aCallings : _bTwenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation / _cedited by William C. Placher
260			_aGrand Rapids, Mich. : _bW.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., _c2005
300			_axvi, 452 p. _b; _c23 cm.
505			_aI. Callings to a Christian life : vocations in the Early Church, 100-500: Introduction -- Letter to the Romans / Ignatius of Antioch -- Dialogue with Trypho / Justin Martyr -- Who is the rich man that shall be saved? / Clement of Alexandria -- Apology / Tertullian -- The life of Antony / Athanasius -- The life of Macrina / Gregory of Nyssa -- The Lausiac History / Palladius -- Sayings of the Desert Fathers -- Confessions / Augustine. II. Called to Religious Life : vocations in the Middle Ages, 500-1500: Introduction -- Institutes / John Cassian -- Life of St. Martin / Sulpicius Severus -- The Rule of St. Benedict / Benedict of Nursia -- Letters / Bernard of Clairvaux -- Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis / John de Joinville -- The life of St. Francis / Bonaventure -- The flowing light of the Godhead / Mechthild of Magdeburg -- Summa Theologiae / Thomas Acquinas -- The treasure of the City of Ladies / Christine de Pisan -- The mission of Joan of Arc -- The imitation of Christ / Thomas à Kempis. III. Every work a calling : vocations after the Reformation, 1500-1800: Introduction -- 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 -- A 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 -- The spiritual exercises / Ignatius Loyola -- The life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by herself / Teresa of Ávila -- Reply to Sor Philothea / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- A treatise of the vocations / William Perkins -- The Temple, or, The country parson / George Herbert -- The collar / George Herbert -- Directions about our labor and callings / Richard Baxter -- The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan -- Journal / George Fox -- A declaration from the poor oppressed people of England -- A serious call to a devout and holy life / William Law -- Personal narrative / Jonathan Edwards -- Journal / John Wesley -- "Sermon 28 : Sermont on the Mount-8" / John Wesley -- "Sermon 51 : The good steward" / John Wesley. IV. Christian callings in a post-Christian world, 1800-present: Introduction -- Fear and trembling / Søren Kierkegaard -- Divine calls / John Henry Newman -- The brothers Karamazov / Feodor Dostoevsky -- Every man's life a plan of God / Horace Bushnell -- Rerum Novarum / Pope Leo XIII -- The Protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber -- Christianity and the social crisis / Walter Rauschenbusch -- What shall I do with my life? / Howard Thurman -- The cost of discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God / Simone Weil -- "Vocation in work" / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Selected writings / Dorothy Day -- No man is an island / Thomas Merton -- Church dogmatics / Karl Barth -- Index.
650			_aVocation Christianity.
700			_aPlacher, William C.
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