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Vocation and the People of God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Iain G. Nicol
Affiliation:
Knox College, 59 St George Street Toronto, Ont. M5S 2E6

Extract

The Christian ethic is now one among a plurality of vocational patterns. It can no longer be made legally binding, nor can it easily be employed as an instrument of social pressure. More and more, the Christian life is viewed as a way which one deliberately chooses. Fewer accept it on the recommendation of their parents or as a matter of social convention.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1980

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References

page 361 note 1 Alleged to be an inscription on a Scottish gravestone.

page 361 note 2 On Luther, see for example, Forell, G. W., Faith active in Love, Augsburg Publ. House, Minneapolis, 1954Google Scholar; Wingren, Gustaf, Luther on Vocation, Muhlenberg Press, Philadelphia, 1957Google Scholar. On Calvin: Biéler, André, La Pensée économique et sociale de Calvin, Publications de la Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales de I'Université de Genè;ve, Vol. XIII, 1959Google Scholar, and his The Social Humanism of Calvin, John Knox Press, Richmond, Va., 1964.Google Scholar

page 362 note 1 See I Cor. 12.

page 367 note 1 Lutterworth Press, London, 1958.

page 367 note 2 Op. cit., p. 104.

page 367 note 3 Op. cit., pp. 102–103.

page 367 note 4 Scribners Sons, New York, 1972.

page 367 note 5 Op. cit., p. 19.

page 367 note 6 Op. cit., Preface.

page 369 note 1 2 Cor. 6.10.

page 369 note 2 Luke 18.II.

page 370 note 1 Harper and Row, New York, 1977.

page 370 note 2 Op. cit., p. 188. See also pp. 186–187, where Moltmann with reference to Erich Fromm, distinguishes the I-identity of being from the ego-identity of having.

page 370 note 3 Op. cit., pp. 188–189.

page 370 note 4 Op. cit., p. 189.

page 371 note 1 Eph. 4.12.

page 372 note 1 Gen. 3.19.

page 373 note 1 John 21.18.

page 373 note 2 Ex. 3.11.