Leading lives that matter : what we should do and who we should be / edited by Mark R. Schwehn & Dorothy C. Bass
- Bib ID:
- 3698212
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- SCHWEHN, Mark R. (ed)
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans, c2006
- xviii, 545 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780802832566
- 0802832563
- 9780802829313
- 0802829317
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Acknowledgments 000
- Preface 000
- Introduction 000
- Prologue 000
- William James "What Makes a Life Significant?" 000
- Albert Schweitzer "I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor" 000
- Part I: Vocabularies
- Authenticity 000
- Charles Taylor from The Ethics of Authenticity 000
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton "The Solitude of Self" 000
- vii
- Schwehn & Bass, galleys
- Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:25:08 PM
- Virtue 000
- Aristotle from Nicomachean Ethics 000
- Theodore Roosevelt "The Vigor of Life" 000
- Vocation 000
- Matthew 20:20-28 000
- Lee Hardy "Making the Match: Career Choice" 000
- Gary Badcock from The Way of Life: A Theology of Christian Vocation 000
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The Place of Responsibility" 000
- Frederick Buechner "Vocation"
- Will Campbell "Vocation as Grace" 000
- Part Ii: Questions
- 1. Are Some Lives More Significant Than Others? 000
- C. S. Lewis "Learning in War-Time" 000
- Aristotle from Nicomachean Ethics 000
- Homer from The Iliad 000
- The Martyrdom of Perpetua 000
- Dorothy Day from Therese 000
- Three Biographical Sketches 000
- Ray Kroc 000
- Iris Chang 000
- Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum 000
- viii
- Contents
- Schwehn & Bass, galleys
- Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:25:08 PM
- Thomas Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 000
- 2. Must My Job Be the Primary Source of My Identity? 000
- Russell Muirhead from Just Work 000
- Dorothy L. Sayers "Why Work?" 000
- Robert Frost "Two Tramps in Mud Time" 000
- Margaret Piercy "To Be of Use" 000
- H. G. Wells "The Door in the Wall" 000
- Abraham Heschel from The Sabbath 000
- William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much with Us" and
- "Lines Composed a Few Miles
- above Tintern Abbey" 000
- Gilbert Meilaender "Friendship and Vocation" 000
- 3. Is a Balanced Life Possible and
- Preferable to a Life Focused Primarily on Work? 000
- Robert Wuthnow "The Changing Nature of Work in the United States:
- Implications for Vocation, Ethics, and Faith" 000
- Bonnie Miller-McLemore "Generativity Crises of My Own,"
- from Also a Mother: Work and Family
- as Theological Dilemma 000
- Arlie Russell Hochschild "Work: The Great Escape" 000
- Abigail Zuger, M.D. "Defining a Doctor" 000
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Village Blacksmith" 000
- Wendell Berry "An Invisible Web," from Jayber Crow 000
- ix
- Contents
- Schwehn & Bass, galleys
- Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:25:08 PM
- Two Eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin
- (King Hussein and Rabin's young granddaughter) 000
- Annie Dillard "Living Like Weasels" 000
- William Butler Yeats "The Choice" 000
- Jane Addams "Filial Relations," from Democracy and Social Ethics 000
- Martha Nussbaum interviewed by Bill Moyers for "A World of Ideas"000
- 4. Should I Follow My Talents as I Decide
- What to Do to Earn a Living? 000
- Matthew 25:14-30 The Parable of the Talents 000
- John Milton "On His Blindness" 000
- Immanuel Kant from Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals 000
- Elizabeth Gaskell from The Life of Charlotte Bront ︠000
- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck from the screenplay of
- Good Will Hunting 000
- James Baldwin "Sonny's Blues" 000
- 5. To Whom Should I Listen? 000
- Will Weaver "The Undeclared Major" 000
- Amy Tan "Two Kinds," from The Joy Luck Club 000
- Malcolm X with Alex Haley from The Autobiography of Malcolm X 000
- Lois Lowry from The Giver 000
- Vincent Harding "I Hear Them Calling" 000
- Willa Cather "The Ancient People," from The Song of the Lark 000
- x
- Contents
- Schwehn & Bass, galleys
- Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:25:08 PM
- Garret Keizer from A Dresser of Sycamore Trees 000
- 6. Can I Control What I Shall Do and Become? 000
- William Ernest Henley "Invictus" 000
- Thomas Lynch "Passed On" 000
- Stephen Dunn "The Last Hours" 000
- The Book of Jonah 000
- Sullivan Ballou A Letter to His Wife, 1861 000
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko "Weddings" 000
- Thomas Merton from Thoughts in Solitude 000
- 7. How Shall I Tell the Story of My Life? 000
- Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" 000
- Mary Catherine Bateson "Composing a Life Story" 000
- Wendell Berry from Jayber Crow 000
- John Steinbeck from East of Eden 000
- Dan McAdams "An American Life Story" 000
- Michael T. Kaufman "Robert McG. Thomas, 60,
- Chronicler of Unsung Lives" 000
- Epilogue 000
- Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych 000.
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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