A Kind of Life Imposed on Man : : Vocation and Social Order from Tyndale to Locke / / Paul A. Marshall.
Vocation, or calling – the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience – is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion. But doctrines of vocation formed the core of much of the economic and social theory of Protestantism at a time when such theory was culturally and politicall...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Importance of a Calling
- 2. Freedom, Necessity, and Calling: From the Ancient World to the Reformation
- 3. Reform, Estate, and Calling: The More Circle and the Early Protestants
- 4. Work, Rationality, and Calling: Puritans and Nonconformists
- 5. Stability, Order, and Calling: The Anglicans
- 6. Politics, Necessity, and Calling: Barth, Brunner, Levellers, and True Levellers
- 7. Economics and Calling: John Locke’s Duality
- 8. Calling and the Shaping of the Modern World
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index