Texts
Gary badcock the way of life: a theology of christian vocation
lee hardy. The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work (Eerdmans, 1990)
John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel Packet & Handouts

I Reformational Foundations

Sep 14 no class Hardy, The Fabric, pp. 3-76
Sep 16 Luther, "On Temporal Authority"; "The Estate of Marriage" "Sermon on the Mount," (handout)
Sep 21 Calvin, Treatises Against (handout)
Sep 23 Perkins, "On Callings" and "Introduction" to Puritan Political Ideas (Hand Out)

II Neo-Orthodox Critiques and Revisions

Sep 28 Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship (handout) Sep 30 Bonhoffer, Ethics (handout)
Oct. 5 Barth, Dogmatics 3/4, pp. 595-647 (handout)

III Contemporary Critiques and Revisions

Oct 7 Yoder, Priestly Kingdom, 15-45, 80-101
Oct 12 Yoder,Priestly Kingdom pp. 151-195
paper: Marsa Terrell
Response: Abbie Teslow
Oct 14 Ellul, "Work and Calling" (handout);
Soelle, To Work and to Love, 1-21, 55-67 (handout)
paper: Chris Rasimen
response: Beth Varro

Oct 19 FALL READING BREAK

Oct 21 Soelle, To Work and to Love, 69-114 (handout)
paper: Abbie Teslow
response: Erica Wilfrid
Oct 26 Volf, Work in the SPirit (handout)
paper: Erik Herakend response: Chris Center Oct 28 Badcock, The Way of Life, pp. 1-70
paper: Adam Hall
response: Adam Olsen
Nov 2 Badcock, The Way of Life, pp. 71-142
Nov 4 NO Class Work on Research Paper
Nov 9 Hardy, The Fabric of This World, 79-124 (skim 124-185)
paper: Chris Grorud
response: Karyn Lien
Nov 11 Schuurman, "Vocation Under Assault," Abuses and Propper Uses of Vocation" (handouts)
paper: Chris Center
response: Chris Rasinen
Nov 16 Student Presentations