In this book, Kiara A. Jorgenson draws on early Protestant thought to recast vocation as the interrelated space between our myriad roles. When understood apart from the contexts of work-as-vocation or passion (as avocation), vocation can extend the conception of neighbor beyond the human and lead to ecologically responsible living.
Chapter 1 Surveying the Land: The Shape of Discourse in Christian Ecological Ethics
Chapter 2 Vocation as Kinship with Clod and Ape: The Planetary Promise of H. Richard Niebuhr's Responsibility Ethic
Chapter 3 New Decalogues: Luther, Calvin, and the Democratization of Vocation
Chapter 4 Embodied Work: Ecology and the Protestant Doctrine of Vocation Since the Reformers
Chapter 5 Voices From the Wilderness: Critical Principles for Contemporary Christian Vocation From the Perspective of A Pastor, Scholar & Poet
Chapter 6 The Ecology of Vocation: The Reclamation and Reformation of a Vital Protestant Doctrine