The Disciples' Call
Theologies of Vocation from Scripture to the Present Day
- 256 pages
- English
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About this book
There is currently no shared language of vocation among Catholics in the developed, post-modern world of Europe and North America. The decline in practice of the faith and a weakened understanding of Church teaching has led to reduced numbers of people entering into marriage, religious life and priesthood. Uniquely, this book traces the development of vocation from scriptural, patristic roots through Thomism and the Reformation to engage with the modern vocational crisis. How are these two approaches compatible? The universal call to holiness is expressed in Lumen Gentium has been read by some as meaning that any vocational choice has the same value as any other such choice; is some sense of a higher calling part of the Catholic theology of vocation or not? Some claim that the single life is a vocation on a par with marriage and religious life; what kind of a theology of vocation leads to that conclusion? And is the secular use of the word 'vocation' to describe certain profession helpful or misleading in the context of Catholic theology?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- HalfTitle
- Colophone
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1 What theologies of vocation are to be found in the Bible?
- 2 Did the early monastic tradition have a concept of vocation?
- 3 The Church as mission
- Part Two
- 4 āThe will to enter religious life does not need to be tested to see whether it is from Godā (ST IIāII 189:10): Can Aquinasā u
- 5 The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola and their contribution to a theology of vocation
- 6 How did the Reformation develop the theology of vocation?
- A note on the Imitation of Christ and vocation in the post-Reformation Church
- 7 āThe Irreducible Particularity of Christā ā Hans Urs von Balthasarās theology of vocation
- Part Three
- 8 What is distinctive about vocations to religious life?
- A note on apostolic religious life
- 9 Vocation to the diocesan priesthood
- 10 How is marriage to be understood as a vocation? How is it connected to the clerical state?
- 11 The psychology of vocation: nurturing the Grail quest
- 12 A culture of vocation
- Index