Vocation

Since the establishment of Vocational Guidance in 1908 by the engineer

Leland Ryken argues for seeing the call of God to a particular occupation as a reflection of the gospel call, and suggests that this implies vocational loyalty – "modern notions of job become deficient" and "the element of arbitrariness of one's choice of work" is removed.^[10]

• States of the Christian life and vocation, according to the doctors and theologians of the Church by Jean-Baptiste Berthier
• ISBN 978-1-57383-031-7
  )
• ISBN 978-0-8358-9805-8
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• The Fabric of this World by Lee Hardy (
  ISBN 978-0-8028-0298-9
  )
• ISBN 978-0-89109-372-5
  )
• ISBN 978-0-8499-4437-6
  )
• ISBN 978-1-56101-074-5
  )
• Let Your Life Speak by
  ISBN 978-0-7879-4735-4
  )
• Lay People in the Church: A Study for a Theology of the Laity by Yves M.J. Congar, O.P. Translated by Donald Attwater, 1959
• Luther on Vocation by Gustaf Wingren, 1957
• ISBN 1-58134-403-1
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• ISBN 0-8308-1994-0
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• ISBN 978-0-8308-3666-6
  )

See also

• Anticipatory socialization
• Career and Life Planning Education
• Effectual calling
• List of largest employers
• Otium
• Profession
• Religious calling
• Trade (occupation)
• Tech certificate
• Vocational discernment in the Catholic Church
• Vocational education

References

1. ^ Richard A. Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House Company, 1985), s.v. "vocation."
2. OED
   records effectively identical uses of "call" in English back to c. 1300: OED, "Call", 6 "To nominate by a personal "call" or summons (to special service or office);esp. by Divine authority..."
3. ^ Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, 11.4
4. ^ Gustaf Wingren, Luther on Vocation
5. ISBN 978-0-8028-3634-2, Google books See also Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
   , trans. Alcott Parsons, Ch.3, p. 79 & note 1.
6. ISBN 978-3-16-146858-2, Google books
   . See also Jeffrey, 815
7. ^ King James Version
8. ^ "Catechism of the Catholic Church – part 3, section 2, chapter 2, article 6". The Holy See. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
9. ISBN 978-0-8028-0137-1
   pages 5, 6
10. ^ Ryken, L. (2002), Work and Leisure, 147.
11. ^ Pope Francis (2015), Laudato si', paragraph 129, accessed 28 January 2024

External links

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