Transforming VocationTransforming Vocation

2021-05-122021-05-12 David BensonDavid Benson

THE EDITORS WOULD LIKE to acknowledge the following for their assistance in this project and the Transforming Vocation conference from which it emerged: The Australian College of Theology, Australia's largest theological provider with ...

Author: David Benson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781666701586

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There has been an explosion of publishing in the faith-work movement in the last twenty years. Work is increasingly seen as the new frontier for Christian mission. However, the church and theological colleges have failed to keep up with the interest among, and needs of, workplace Christians. This book is the urgent corrective that is needed, moving past Theology of Work 101 to much deeper encounters with God's word as it relates to daily work. These twelve academic papers look at work through three different lenses: the workplace, the church, and theological education. It is prefaced by Mark Greene from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, reflecting on what work, church, and theological education would look like if there was no sacred-secular divide. In the concluding remarks, the editors imagine a future where each domain is transformed by the gospel, working dynamically together for the life of the world. While academic in terms of depth of thinking, quality of research, and referencing of crucial sources for further exploration, this book is never dry. Rather, it's life-giving and provocative for every vocation, asking fundamental questions of the reader: What is the work that God is calling you to do? How can the gospel transform your work? And how well-positioned are churches and colleges to be at the forefront of transforming vocation? With contributions from: Mark Greene James Pietsch Peter White Peter Docherty Gordon Preece Keith Mitchell David Fagg Ian Hussey Colin Noble Andrew Matthews Sarah Bacaller Samuel Curkpatrick Maggie Kappelhoff

Transforming VocationTransforming Vocation

2008-03-012008-03-01 Sam PortaroSam Portaro

Transformations Series Sam Portaro James Lemler ... serving as co—chairs of the Council, who had been encouraged to use their own vocations in service to the ministry. Now they were encouraged to lead the ministry into its own vocation.

Author: Sam Portaro

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

ISBN: 9780898695861

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Uses the Bible, theology, and personal stories to envision a church where all vocations are equally treasured and all members supported in discerning their place in God’s plan.

Radical SendingRadical Sending

2015-10-102015-10-10 Demi PrentissDemi Prentiss

Graber Miller, “Transforming Vocation,” 29–48. Complete Writings of Menno Simons, c. ... John D. Roth, Practices: Mennonite Worship and Witness (Scottdale, Our Mission to Transform the World (Notre Dame, IN: Ave. 74. Ibid., 147. 75.

Author: Demi Prentiss

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

ISBN: 9780819231840

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As congregations explore their emerging visions, they need support in "equipping the saints" for their day-to-day lives and ministries beyond the doors of the building. The Dismissal -- "go in peace, to love and serve the Lord" -- becomes as important as the Eucharist in feeding the people for the journey. But churches often fail to focus on this baptismal calling to "go" into the worlds of work, family, and community. This book fills that void, focusing on how the baptized become "go-ers," providing practical and tested ways of fulfilling that calling. Go to Love and Serve builds on and complements the work of Stephanie Spellers' Radical Welcome, which called congregations to move beyond diversity and inclusion to be places where the transforming gifts, voices, and power of marginalized cultures and groups bring new life to the mainline church. Each chapter is followed by discussion questions for use with small groups or for personal reflection. * Foreword by Stephanie Spellers * Core resource for discernment in living out baptismal promises * Empowers the laity for their ministries beyond the church doors * Study questions for small group discussion or individual reflection

Formation for TransformationFormation for Transformation

2022-01-132022-01-13 Bruce MyersBruce Myers

Budde, “Vocation for Unity,” – . . Budde, “Vocation for Unity,” . . Budde, “Vocation for Unity,” . . Budde, “Vocation for Unity,” . Emphasis in original. . Budde, “Vocation for Unity,” – . See also Regan, Toward an Adult Church, .

Author: Bruce Myers

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781666720921

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In the past century the ecumenical movement has made extraordinary efforts in healing the wounds of division in the body of Christ--the church. However, in their formal preparation for ministry, many clergy learn little or nothing about the achievements, methods, or implications of ecumenism. This failure to adequately educate and inspire successive generations of Christian leaders about the quest for the church's visible unity risks not only an irretrievable loss of ecumenical memory, but also a return to a time in which ignorance, fear, mistrust, suspicion, stereotypes, caricatures, recrimination, anathematization--even persecution--characterized the relations between divided churches. Drawing on decades of reflection on ecumenical reception and formation, and using the Anglican Church of Canada as a model, this book presents an approach to teaching the practical and theological aspects of ecumenism in a way that is both holistic and pragmatic and offers the potential to raise up a new generation of church leaders who are also agents of reconciliation and Christian unity.

The Transformation of Religious Orders in Central and Eastern EuropeThe Transformation of Religious Orders in Central and Eastern Europe

2021-05-102021-05-10 Stefania PalmisanoStefania Palmisano

Discussion Fichter's (1961) sociological interpretation of the acceptance of vocation has a theological and sociological element to it. He relies on the terminology of Cronin (1955) and says that the ecclesiastical vocation is generally ...

Author: Stefania Palmisano

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000373622

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The first volume to explore various facets of contemporary change in consecrated religious life in selected Central and Eastern European countries, this book presents a series of studies of Catholic and Orthodox monasticism. With attention to changes in the economy, everyday life, organisation and social presence of monastic orders, contributors shed light on the impact of 20th and 21st century social and cultural processes – such as communism and its collapse or the growth of new communication technologies – on life in the cloister. Bringing together research from various locations in Central and Eastern Europe, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, religious studies and theology, with interests in religious orders and transformations of religious life from a social perspective.

Re Imagining the ChurchRe Imagining the Church

2016-09-302016-09-30 Robert J. SudermanRobert J. Suderman

assumptions that are emerging, or as discerning and transforming them when needed from the perspectives of the ... and the vocation of the church to transform the culture that colonizes us. to the degree to which the church is able to ...

Author: Robert J. Suderman

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781498290937

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The church. What has it become? What was it meant to be? Does it pave the way or get in the way? Are we suspicious of the institutionalization of church bureaucracy? Or thrilled with the relevant impact of its presence? Robert J. Suderman writes about the church as a practitioner. His inspiration emerges out of the crossroads of biblical vision and human sincerity always tempered with frailty. Years of ministry, never a stranger to complexity, only serve to sharpen the vision of possibility. His imagination of what can be is never divorced from the realities of what is. He does not bow to the common assumption that "you can't get there from here." "Here" is the only possible point of origin for us. In his succinct, easy to understand writing style, Suderman provides insightful and thought-provoking perspectives to what it means to be the church. To be a people "called out" to participate together in God's activity in the world, and to create programs and structures needed for effective ministry are two sides of the same coin. This book is for dreamers and bureaucrats alike; indeed, it assumes that the two are indispensable pieces of God's coming presence. Introduction by: Tom Yoder Neufeld

The artist of the possibilitiesThe artist of the possibilities

2018-05-152018-05-15 Jesús Lara SoteloJesús Lara Sotelo

But the smart reader will guess, despite the otherness with which the lyrical subject defies his surroundings, a transforming vocation that will finally prevent (self) destruction. Grand Prix and Ojo sencillo is a book of isolations, ...

Author: Jesús Lara Sotelo

Publisher: Punto Rojo Libros

ISBN: 9788417520786

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Jesus Lara Sotelo ́s literary work, unique and heterogeneous at the same time, showa a tireless fervor and rich inspiration. Without setting limits between amenity and greatness, his lyrical power stands out in the middle of dense forest. Concentrated and austere at times, excessive in others, he takes over himself and others in body and soul and he projects himself as he truly is, while he meditates thoroughly and thinks over and over about the earthly and cosmogonist things, perceiving in them their most active principles, so his compositions are, at the same time, and an act of creation and an act revelation in teh knowledge of new lives, where all spiritual an earthly things are revealed and released. So, it seems that in this way, every moment and every place of nature are willing to welcome the invasion of his opinion, which brings about a confiscation of total condition of the man and his sorrounding, which recognizes him with great jubilation.

Virtue and the Voice of GodVirtue and the Voice of God

20062006 Daniel J. TreierDaniel J. Treier

... a transforming vocation of Christian witness. Theology is therefore communicative praxis, of response to God that enriches self and others by learning to live wisely. Hence the need arose to construe carefully theology's practical ...

Author: Daniel J. Treier

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ISBN: 9780802830746

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Theology has its deepest roots as a course of study that leads to wisdom. Yet with the growth of the academy it began to be sidetracked into a fixation with the predictable results of science. In this illuminating study, Daniel Treier retrieves this older, deeper understanding and connects wisdom in theological education to the theological interpretation of scripture, giving rise to a renewed understanding to the role of virtue. Engaging in dialogue with a number of prominent proponents of theological interpretation of scripture, Treier builds on a biblical theology of wisdom that involves daily lives of all God's people. Ultimately, Treier connects educational discussions of theology and hermeneutical discussions through a Trinitarian understanding of wisdom. As a result, the increasingly diverse forms and social locations of theology can be integrated into the mainstream of theological reflection. Filled with interdisciplinary wisdom, Virtue and the Voice of God is a timely recovery of the essential conversation between theological education, virtue and the interpretation of scripture.

Vocation and Social ContextVocation and Social Context

2007-07-102007-07-10 Giuseppe GiordanGiuseppe Giordan

Investigating the multiple points of religious agency, especially as they are revealed in the strategies people use to enact agency, helps us detect the varied potential “transformation points” (Giddens 1984: xxxi) in religious ...

Author: Giuseppe Giordan

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789047421023

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Illustrating the different ways in which Weber's category of Beruf can be interpreted, and how it can be studied from various perspectives and with different methods, this book demonstrates how "vocation" continues to be a fertile concept for contemporary sociology.