Looking for books on calling/vocation/work

[crhoades]

Not in the pastoral sense - just work in general.

Here's the list I'm starting with:

Leland Ryken, Redeeming the Time: Christian Approach to work and leisure
Gene Veith, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life
Os Guiness, The Call

I'm looking for historical, biblical, systematic treatments of it. Audio is cool too.

Websites as well.

[Edited on 9-15-2006 by crhoades]

 

[C. Matthew McMahon]

"The Religious Tradesman" by Richard Steele. (Sprinkle Publications)

Awesome.

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[Scott]

Ditto to Matt. Steele's book is awesome.

 

[crhoades]

Originally posted by C. Matthew McMahon
"The Religious Tradesman" by Richard Steele. (Sprinkle Publications)

Awesome.

[Edited on 9-15-2006 by C. Matthew McMahon]

http://www.heritagebooks.org/browse.asp?fname=Richard&lname=Steele

Sprinkle or modern edition? Have you been able to compare? I have no problem with reading older stuff, but if I recommend it to a Sunday School class, would the modern edition be more prudent? Sufficient?

While I'm at it, thoughts on his other works?:
A Remedy for Wandering Thoughts in Worship (for a friend )
or
Character of an Upright Man: A Plea for Personal Integrity?

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[VirginiaHuguenot]

Ditto to Richard Steele's The Religious Tradesman.

Also see Luther on Vocation.

Richard Baxter has a lot to say on this subject in A Christian Directory.

Also the chapter on "Work" in Worldly Saints by Leland Ryken for a whole buch of other Reformed resources on vocation, including John Cotton, Cotton Mather, William Perkins and John Calvin.

And Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life by Douglas J. Schuurman.

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[VirginiaHuguenot]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Callings-Centuries-Christian-Wisdom-Vocation/dp/0802829279]Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation[/ame] (2005) by William C. Placher looks very useful.

 

[crhoades]

Originally posted by VirginiaHuguenot
Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (2005) by William C. Placher looks very useful.

Picked that up the other day along with on Vocation.