The Disciples' call
Subtitle: theologies of vocation from scripture to the present day
By: edited by Fr Christopher Jamison, O.S.B.
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780567310996; 9781472558374; 9781472558381; 9780567631770
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Berufung; Conduct of life; Theologie; Christliche Existenz; Christianity; Religion; Spiritual life; Vocation; Catholic Church
Description: 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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What theologies of vocation are to be found in the Bible?  -- Fr John Hemer; title: Did the early monastic tradition have a concept of vocation?  -- Fr Richard Price; title: The church as a mission  -- Fr Richard Lennan; title: 'The will to enter religious life does not need to be tested to see whether it is from God' (ST II-II 189:10) : can Aquinas' understanding of vocation still work?  -- Fr Joseph Bolin; title: The Spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola and their contribution to a theology of vocation  -- Sr Gemma Simmonds; title: How did the Reformation develop the theology of vocation  -- The Very Revd David Hoyle; title: A note on the Imitation of Christ and vocation in the post-Reformation church  -- Abbot Geoffrey Scott; title: 'The irreducible particularity of Christ' : Hans Urs von Balthasar's theology of vocation  -- Sr Gill Goulding; title: What is distinctive about vocations to religious life?  -- Sr Cathy Jones; title: A note on apostolic religious life  -- Dr Susan O'Brien; title: Vocation to the diocesan priesthood  -- Fr Stephen Wang; title: How is marriage to be understood as a vocation? How is it connected to the clerical state  -- Fr Yuriy Kolasa; title: The psychology of vocation : nurturing the Grail quest  -- Dr Peter Tyler; title: A culture of vocation -- Fr Christopher Jamison.