Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life - Softcover

Douglas J. Schuurman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802801374 ISBN 13: 9780802801371

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003

Synopsis

The Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, buThe Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, but in recent years central tenets of this doctrine have come under assault. Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life explores current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians. According to Douglas Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God's calling. To renew this biblical perspective, Schuurman argues, Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, and his book helps do just that. Developed in dialogue with audiences as diverse as college students, industrial workers, business leaders, church leaders, and professional theologians and ethicists, the book examines the theological and ethical dimensions of vocation as these have been understood historically and in relation to our modern social setting.

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About the Author

Douglas J. Schuurman (1955–2020) was a professor of religion at St. Olaf College for thirty-four years. He was instrumental in launching a St. Olaf program on vocation as part of a Lilly Endowment initiative on the Theological Exploration of Vocation. He published numerous articles for a general readership on questions of calling; he also published books on that topic, including Vocation: Discerning Our Calling in Life and Calling in Today’s World: Voices from Eight Faith Perspectives.

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The Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, but in recent years central tenets of this doctrine have come under assault. "Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life explores current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians.

According to Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God's calling. To renew this biblical perspective, Schuurman argues, Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, and his book helps do just that.

Developed in dialogue with audiences as diverse as college students, industrial workers, business leaders, church leaders, and professional theologians and ethicists, the book examines the theological and ethical dimensions of vocation as these have been understood historically and in relation to our modern social setting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802801374
• ISBN 13: 9780802801371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204