Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life - Softcover

Schuurman, Douglas J.

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, 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor of religion at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Among his other books is Creation, Eschaton, and Ethics.-

About this edition

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