{"product_id":"plough-quarterly-no-22-vocation-9780874863222","title":"Plough Quarterly No. 22  Vocation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour job is not your vocation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone hungers for work that has meaning and purpose. \u003c\/b\u003eBut what gives work meaning?  Vocation, or calling, is the answer Protestant Christianity offers: each person is called by God to serve the common good in a particular line of work. Your vocation, evidently, might be almost anything: as a nurse, a wilderness guide, a calligrapher, a missionary, an activist, a venture capitalist, a politician, an executioner Yet, as Will Willimon writes in this issue, the New Testament knows only one form of vocation: discipleship. And discipleship is far more likely to mean leaving father and mother, houses and land, than it is to mean embracing one's identity as a fisherman or tax collector.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis issue of Plough focuses \u003c\/b\u003eon people who lived their lives with that sense of vocation. Such a life demands self-sacrifice and a willingness to recognize one's own supposed strengths as weaknesses, as it did for the Canadian philosopher Jean Vanier.","brand":"Plough Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884903346519,"sku":"9780874863222","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plough-quarterly-no-22-vocation-9780874863222","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}