Quotation
Excerpts from Learning in Wartime, by C. S. Lewis, woven throughout post.
Reflection
In my last post I argued that so long as Christians’ talk about “finding one’s calling†is held captive by the modern American idea that self-realization only happens by way of unfettered, individual self-expression, our talk of vocation will be far-removed from Christ’s call to live lives of self-sacrificial love. This way of thinking about vocation is inherently self-absorbed and will, more often than not, be blind to our social responsibilities before a hurting world. Instead, I argued that we can better think about vocation by taking seriously both Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s claim that we find our vocation within the parameters of our concrete responsibilities to God and neighbor, and Saint Augustine’s famous dictum, “Love, and do what thou wilt.†These two dicta, I argued, help us to see how Christ’s call to self-sacrificial love constitutes both the burning center and the outer limit of our vocations. [Read more…] about Vocatio Christ: The Contours of Our Callings Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)