| Description |
xviii, 545 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What makes a life significant? / William James -- I resolve to become a jungle doctor / Albert Schweitzer -- From The ethics of authenticity / Charles Taylor -- Solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- From Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- The vigor of life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Matthew 20:20-28 -- Making the match : career choice / Lee Hardy -- Choosing / Gary D. Badcock -- The place of responsibility / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Vocation / Frederick Buechner -- Vocation as grace / Will Campbell -- Learning in war-time / C.S. Lewis -- From Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- From The Iliad / Homer -- The martyrdom of Perpetua -- From Therese / Dorothy Day -- Three biographical sketches : Ray Kroc, Iris Chang, Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- From Just work / Russell Muirhead -- Why work? / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost -- To be of use / Margaret Piercy -- The door in the wall / H.G. Wells -- From The Sabbath / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- The world is too much with us ; and, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth -- Friendship and vocation / Gilbert Meilaender -- The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith / Robert Wuthnow -- Generativity crises of my own / Bonnie Miller-McLemore -- There's no place like work / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Defining a doctor / Abigail Zuger -- The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- An invisible web / Wendell Berry -- Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin / King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- The choice / William Butler Yeats -- Filial relations / Jane Addams -- Martha Nussbaum, interviewed by Bill Moyers -- Matthew 25:14-30 : the parable of the talents -- On his blindness / John Milton -- From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- From The life of Charlotte Brontë / Elizabeth Gaskell -- From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting / Matt Damon and Ben Affleck -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The undeclared major / Will Weaver -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X with Alex Haley -- From The giver / Lois Lowry -- I hear them-- calling / Vincent Harding -- The ancient people / Willa Cather -- From A dresser of sycamore trees / Garret Keizer -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- Passed on / Thomas Lynch -- The last hours / Stephen Dunn -- The Book of Jonah -- A letter to his wife, 1861 / Sullivan Ballou -- Weddings / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- From Thoughts in solitude / Thomas Merton -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson -- From Jayber Crow / Wendell Berry -- From East of Eden / John Steinbeck -- An American life story / Dan McAdams -- Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives / Michael T. Kaufman -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy. |
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Vocation -- Christianity.
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Vocation.
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Work -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Work -- Religious aspects.
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Meaning (Philosophy) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Meaning (Philosophy) -- Religious aspects.
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| Added Author |
Schwehn, Mark R., 1945-
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Bass, Dorothy C.
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| ISBN |
0802829317 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780802829313 paperback alkaline paper |
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0802832563 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780802832566 cloth alkaline paper |
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