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Authors: Mark R. Schwehn (Editor), Dorothy C. Bass
ISBN-13: 9780802829313, ISBN-10: 0802829317
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Mark R. Schwehn

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	"What makes a life significant?"	14
	"I resolve to become a jungle doctor"	29
	From The ethics of authenticity	49
	"Solitude of self"	59
	From Nicomachean ethics	65
	"The vigor of life"	83
	20:20-28	89
	"Making the match : career choice"	90
	"Choosing"	101
	"The place of responsibility"	107
	"Vocation"	111
	"Vocation as grace"	112
	"Learning in war-time"	124
	From Nicomachean ethics	129
	From The Iliad	130
	The martyrdom of Perpetua	144
	From Therese	153
	Three biographical sketches	168
	Three biographical sketches	171
	Three biographical sketches	173
	"Elegy written in a country churchyard"	175
	From Just work	188
	"Why work?"	191
	"Two tramps in mud time"	196
	"To be of use"	199
	"The door in the wall"	201
	From The sabbath	216
	"The world is too much with us" and "lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey"	222
	"Friendship and vocation"	229
	"The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith"	255
	"Generativity crises of my own"	263
	"There's no place like work"	272
	"Defining a doctor"	278
	"The village blacksmith"	281
	"An invisible web"	283
	Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin	294
	"Living like weasels"	298
	"The choice"	302
	"Filial relations"	303
	Interviewed by Bill Moyers	308
	25:14-30 the parable of the talents	317
	"On his blindness"	318
	From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals	320
	From The life of Charlotte Bronte	321
	From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting	322
	"Sonny's blues"	330
	"The undeclared major"	364
	"Two kinds"	370
	From The autobiography of Malcolm X	381
	From The giver	386
	"I hear them ... calling"	395
	"The ancient people"	404
	From A dresser of sycamore trees	413
	"Invictus"	434
	"Passed on"	435
	"The last hours"	438
	The book of Jonah	440
	A letter to his wife, 1861	444
	"Weddings"	447
	From Thoughts in solitude	449
	"The road not taken"	458
	"Composing a life story"	459
	From Jayber Crow	467
	From East of Eden	468
	"An American life story"	471
	"Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives"	481
	The death of Ivan Ilych	492

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