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Article: The Listening Heart: Vocation and the Crisis of Modern Culture.(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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THE LISTENING HEART: VOCATION AND THE CRISIS OF MODERN CULTURE by A.J. CONVERS Spence, 217 pages, $27.95
This deeply learned and thoughtful book, published after the death of A.J. Conyers, is less about what our contemporaries tend to think of as "vocation" and more about "the crisis of modern culture." When we think of vocation, we almost surely think first of work for pay--which means, also, following a life course that we have chosen and in which we hope to find fulfillment. What Conyers means by vocation, however, is what the word once meant: God's call to us, the divine summons to live our life in response to God and toward the goal of rest in God. It is ...