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Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically, this volume shows that higher education can clarify how God calls all people, allow mentoring across specific vocations, and inspire future generations to think of their lives as vocations.
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Life Doing More with Connecting Christian Higher Education to a Call to Service Michael R. Miller, Editor Doing More with Life Doing More with Life Connecting Christian Higher Education to a Call to Service edited by Michael R. Miller BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS Studies in Religion and Higher Education 3 Editorial Advisory Board ≥ Michael Beaty, Baylor University Jean Bethke Elsthain, The University of Chicago Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College ©2007 Baylor University Press Waco, Texas 76798 All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of Baylor University Press. Book Design by Gryphon Graphics Cover Design by Joan Osth Unless otherwise indicated scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Excerpts appear by permission from the following: “Liberal Learning and the Light of Faith: An Initiation into Wholeness,” The Cresset: A Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs (Trinity 2004). “Integrating Heart, Mind, and Soul: The Vocation of the Christian Teacher,” in Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach: Living Out One’s Calling in the Twenty-First Century Academy (Mercer University Press, 2005), ed. John Marson Dunaway. “Behind the Scenes of Hollywood,” Crisis Magazine, 14 June 2005; and “Some Great Calling,” The Baylor Line, 15 March 2005. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doing more with life : connecting Christian higher education to a call to service / edited by Michael R. Miller. p. cm. -- (Studies in religion and higher education ; #3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-932792-80-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Vocation--Christianity. 2. Education (Christian theology) 3. Service (Theology) 4. College teachers--Religious life. 5. Education, Higher. I. Miller, Michael R. BV4740.D65 2007 248.8'34--dc22 2006036037 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper with a minimum of 30% pcw content. To Sara, my wife, who has blessed my life in countless ways. You are my treasure, my vocation, my love. Contents Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii Introduction: Vision of Vocation Michael R. Miller 1 Part 1: Vocation and Transformation Joan of Arcadia and Fulfilling Your True Nature Jessamyn Neuhaus 19 Vocation as Proclamation of Love Thomas Looney 35 Habits, Compartmentalization, and Vocation William C. Mattison III and Marc Parisi 49 Transforming the Artistic Vocation into a Calling Gael Mooney 63 ix x Contents Part 2: Vocation and Service to Others Developing a Vocation of Work for Today John Larrivee 77 Our Common Calling to Holiness and Sanctity William C. Mills 91 The Ethics of Vocation and Military Service Stephen Butler Murray 107 The Call of the Other: A Levinasian Approach to Vocation Stanley Nevins 117 Pa