Leading lives that matter : what we should do and who we should be /
Leading lives that matter : what we should do and who we should be /
edited by Mark R. Schwehn & Dorothy C. Bass.
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2006.
- xviii, 545 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What makes a life significant? / I resolve to become a jungle doctor / From The ethics of authenticity / Solitude of self / From Nicomachean ethics / The vigor of life / Matthew 20:20-28 -- Making the match : career choice / Choosing / The place of responsibility / Vocation / Vocation as grace / Learning in war-time / From Nicomachean ethics / From The Iliad / The martyrdom of Perpetua -- From Therese / Three biographical sketches : Ray Kroc, Iris Chang, Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / From Just work / Why work? / Two tramps in mud time / To be of use / The door in the wall / From The Sabbath / The world is too much with us ; and, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / Friendship and vocation / The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith / Generativity crises of my own / There's no place like work / Defining a doctor / The village blacksmith / An invisible web / Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin / Living like weasels / The choice / Filial relations / Martha Nussbaum, interviewed by Bill Moyers -- Matthew 25:14-30 : the parable of the talents -- On his blindness / From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals / From The life of Charlotte Bront�e / From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting / Sonny's blues / The undeclared major / Two kinds / From The autobiography of Malcolm X / From The giver / I hear them-- calling / The ancient people / From A dresser of sycamore trees / Invictus / Passed on / The last hours / The Book of Jonah -- A letter to his wife, 1861 / Weddings / From Thoughts in solitude / The road not taken / Composing a life story / From Jayber Crow / From East of Eden / An American life story / Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives / The death of Ivan Ilych / William James -- Albert Schweitzer -- Charles Taylor -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Aristotle -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Lee Hardy -- Gary D. Badcock -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Frederick Buechner -- Will Campbell -- C.S. Lewis -- Aristotle -- Homer -- Dorothy Day -- Thomas Gray -- Russell Muirhead -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Robert Frost -- Margaret Piercy -- H.G. Wells -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- William Wordsworth -- Gilbert Meilaender -- Robert Wuthnow -- Bonnie Miller-McLemore -- Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Abigail Zuger -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Wendell Berry -- King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof -- Annie Dillard -- William Butler Yeats -- Jane Addams -- John Milton -- Immanuel Kant -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck -- James Baldwin -- Will Weaver -- Amy Tan -- Malcolm X with Alex Haley -- Lois Lowry -- Vincent Harding -- Willa Cather -- Garret Keizer -- William Ernest Henley -- Thomas Lynch -- Stephen Dunn -- Sullivan Ballou -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Thomas Merton -- Robert Frost -- Mary Catherine Bateson -- Wendell Berry -- John Steinbeck -- Dan McAdams -- Michael T. Kaufman -- Leo Tolstoy.
0802829317 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780802829313 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0802832563 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780802832566 (cloth : alk. paper)
2006003736
GBA629572 bnb
013420476 Uk
Vocation--Christianity.
Vocation.
Work--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Work--Religious aspects.
Meaning (Philosophy)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Meaning (Philosophy)--Religious aspects.
BT 738.5 / .L43 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What makes a life significant? / I resolve to become a jungle doctor / From The ethics of authenticity / Solitude of self / From Nicomachean ethics / The vigor of life / Matthew 20:20-28 -- Making the match : career choice / Choosing / The place of responsibility / Vocation / Vocation as grace / Learning in war-time / From Nicomachean ethics / From The Iliad / The martyrdom of Perpetua -- From Therese / Three biographical sketches : Ray Kroc, Iris Chang, Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / From Just work / Why work? / Two tramps in mud time / To be of use / The door in the wall / From The Sabbath / The world is too much with us ; and, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / Friendship and vocation / The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith / Generativity crises of my own / There's no place like work / Defining a doctor / The village blacksmith / An invisible web / Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin / Living like weasels / The choice / Filial relations / Martha Nussbaum, interviewed by Bill Moyers -- Matthew 25:14-30 : the parable of the talents -- On his blindness / From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals / From The life of Charlotte Bront�e / From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting / Sonny's blues / The undeclared major / Two kinds / From The autobiography of Malcolm X / From The giver / I hear them-- calling / The ancient people / From A dresser of sycamore trees / Invictus / Passed on / The last hours / The Book of Jonah -- A letter to his wife, 1861 / Weddings / From Thoughts in solitude / The road not taken / Composing a life story / From Jayber Crow / From East of Eden / An American life story / Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives / The death of Ivan Ilych / William James -- Albert Schweitzer -- Charles Taylor -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Aristotle -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Lee Hardy -- Gary D. Badcock -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Frederick Buechner -- Will Campbell -- C.S. Lewis -- Aristotle -- Homer -- Dorothy Day -- Thomas Gray -- Russell Muirhead -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Robert Frost -- Margaret Piercy -- H.G. Wells -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- William Wordsworth -- Gilbert Meilaender -- Robert Wuthnow -- Bonnie Miller-McLemore -- Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Abigail Zuger -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Wendell Berry -- King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof -- Annie Dillard -- William Butler Yeats -- Jane Addams -- John Milton -- Immanuel Kant -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck -- James Baldwin -- Will Weaver -- Amy Tan -- Malcolm X with Alex Haley -- Lois Lowry -- Vincent Harding -- Willa Cather -- Garret Keizer -- William Ernest Henley -- Thomas Lynch -- Stephen Dunn -- Sullivan Ballou -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Thomas Merton -- Robert Frost -- Mary Catherine Bateson -- Wendell Berry -- John Steinbeck -- Dan McAdams -- Michael T. Kaufman -- Leo Tolstoy.
0802829317 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780802829313 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0802832563 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780802832566 (cloth : alk. paper)
2006003736
GBA629572 bnb
013420476 Uk
Vocation--Christianity.
Vocation.
Work--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Work--Religious aspects.
Meaning (Philosophy)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Meaning (Philosophy)--Religious aspects.
BT 738.5 / .L43 2006