Callings

Callings
Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802830487

The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730

The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730
Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1972
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874518528

A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.

Puritan Political Ideas

Puritan Political Ideas
Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780872206878

In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a continuing significance in our history: calling, covenant, and the separate spheres of church and state. The selections show the origin of these ideas in the writings of the early English Puritans before the colonization of America, in seventeenth century New England, and finally in new contexts in the eighteenth century. One may read these documents as primary sources of Puritan thought per se, as sources of American intellectual history, or as sources of a political theory that flowered in the early years of the new constitutional republic. --from the Foreword

Visions of Vocation

Visions of Vocation
Author: Steven Garber
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830896260

Vocation is more than a job. It is our relationships and responsibilities woven into the work of God. In following our calling to seek the welfare of our world, we find that it flourishes and so do we. Garber offers here a book for parents, artists, students, public servants and businesspeople—for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.

God’s Imposition

God’s Imposition
Author: Dee Aleasha Grimes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021
Genre: Vocation
ISBN:

William Perkins (1558–1602) was a significant figure in the post-Reformation Church of England. Contemporary scholars call him the “father of Puritanism” for his pursuit of spiritual reform through preaching and teaching. As a theologian, he is known for his important contribution to the doctrine of predestination, A Golden Chain. He also authored numerous practical works meant to guide Christian life. Scholarship concerning his practical works is less available, thus this dissertation contributes to that lacuna specifically concerning his A Treatise of the Vocations, or Callings of Men, with the Sorts and Kinds of Them, and the Right Use Thereof. In terms of spirituality, Perkins was concerned with how Christians respond to God’s grace in their daily practice. Vocation, or the personal calling, according to Perkins, is “a certain kind of life, ordained and imposed on man by God for the common good.” In other words, a vocation is designed by God, unique to each Christian, and for the good of the family, church, and commonwealth. A result of God’s decree of predestination, the personal calling follows the general calling (salvation). Vocation then is the context in which sanctification occurs, or where spirituality is made evident. This is the essence of Perkins’s spirituality: God’s grace is most evident through a Christian’s obedience in good works in the context of his or her particular calling. This conviction shapes his vision of the Christian life.