Callings - Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation

Placher, William C., editor

Callings - Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation

Publisher: Michigan USA/Cambridge UK, Eerdmans

ISBN: 0802829279

Published: 2005

Condition: NF/--

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£12.00 with P&P in UK

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1st paperback edition, an unread copy in near fine condition. 452 pages. Presents select passages on work and vocation from the greatest writers in Christian history. William Placher has written introductions to accompany the selections - an introduction to each of the four main historical sections and a brief introduction to each reading. This book shows how the distilled wisdom of these saints, preachers, theologians and teachers remains relevant to Christians today. Contains the writings of such people as: Ignatius of Antioch; Tertullian; Bernard of Clairvaux; Augustine; Thomas Aquinas; Martin Luther; John Calvin; Tersa of Avila; John Bunyan; John Wesley; George Fox; Kierkegaard; Feodor Dostoevsky; Pope Loe XIII; Dorothy Sayers; Simone Weil; Thomas Merton; Karl Barth. Writings date from the 1st century AD to the present day.

Our Ref: A0038




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