The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
Language: English
Published by W Pub Group, United States, 1998
- Hardcover
- Used





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Hardcover copy of The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life by Os Guinness, copyright 1998, with its dust jacket. The printing line is consistent with a fourth printing; this is not offered as a first printing. The front free endpaper is personally inscribed to Marsha and signed by Os Guinness. A separate note in the owner’s handwriting appears beneath the inscription and records the signing occasion. Please note the substantial pencil underlining and handwritten marginal comments visible in the text photographs. There is also light shelf and handling wear to the exterior and jacket. Please review the actual-copy photographs, especially the inscription and annotated pages, before purchasing.
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- Title
- The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
- Author
- Os Guinness
- Publisher
- W Pub Group, United States
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0849912911
- ISBN 13
- 9780849912917
- Printing
- 4th Printing
- Item weight
- 20 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6.25 inches width by 9.5 inches height by 1 inch depth
Os Guinness has penned a classic reflective work on life's purpose. Far bigger than our jobs and accomplishments and higher than our wildest ideas of self-fulfillment, our calling does more than give purpose and meaning to our lives-it completes God's plan for us.
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About the Author
OS GUINNESS (DPhil, Oxford University) is an author and social critic. Born in China, he was educated in England at the Universities of London and Oxford. He moved to the United States in 1984, and has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the lead drafter of both the Williamsburg Charter and the Global Carter of Conscience, as well as the founder of the Trinity Forum. He has written more than 25 books, including The Call, The American Hour, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, The Case for Civility, A Free People's Suicide, and his latest: The Global Public Square. He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, Virginia.
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