Who Am I?: Exploring Your Identity Through Your Vocations
Who am I? What's my purpose in life? How should I live? This book invites you to explore your identity through your callings, to imagine living virtuously for others, and to discover deep meaning and satisfaction in life. You'll look at many vocations that young people have or will have later in life. Callings covered include being a student, citizen, neighbor, worker, care-taker of nature, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, parent, child, sibling, saint and priest, and friend. Chapters on these callings examine the nature and responsibilities of these roles in light of human and divine wisdom found in the liberal arts tradition and the Bible. You'll also entertain the role that avocations play in life and how such enthusiastic pursuits can renew and equip you. Each chapter contains exercises for reflection and discussion that can be done privately, with a partner, or in a group.
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This gathering of insights from faculty members at Concordia University Irvine offers a useful contribution to the growing national conversation about vocation and calling. The rich history of this terminology is being redeployed as a way of helping young people, particularly college students, to reflect on and discern their future directions in life. While some of these chapters will be most useful within their original ecclesial context, others will have wider appeal-including the chapters on virtue, on the vocation of a student, and on the importance of our avocations. As an added bonus, the chapter on friendship may be the first ever to enter into extended conversation with both King Lear and the Spice Girls!
David S. Cunningham, Professor of Religion, Hope College, and Director, Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE), Council of Independent Colleges
A great tragedy for Lutherans and Christians of all stripes is that Luther's wonderful teaching on vocation has not been adequately communicated to the laity. This book, edited by Scott Ashmon, is a vigorous and fruitful response to that need. He and colleagues from Concordia University in Irvine, who earlier responded to a need for serious reflection on what it means to be a Christian University in their Idea and Practice of a Christian University, have now trained their considerable talents on illuminating and communicating Lutheran insights on the vocation of the laity. They do so by exploring lay callings in a variety of settings, from marriage and family life to politics. They have admirably exercised their vocation as Christian teachers.
Robert Benne, Professor of Christian Ethics at the Institute of Lutheran Theology, Brookings, South Dakota
Author of Ordinary Saints: An Introduction to the Christian Life (Fortress)
