The Listening Heart - Vocation and the Crisis of Modern Culture (Hardcover)


A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice will be culture of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In a provocative new book, A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call from outside and above themselves. Beginning in the sixteenth century, however, the sense of vocation began to fade, to be replaced by the modern celebration of the unfettered human will. In such a society, Conyers argues, where relations among men are based on force, true community is impossible. The idea of vocation is of central

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A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice will be culture of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In a provocative new book, A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call from outside and above themselves. Beginning in the sixteenth century, however, the sense of vocation began to fade, to be replaced by the modern celebration of the unfettered human will. In such a society, Conyers argues, where relations among men are based on force, true community is impossible. The idea of vocation is of central

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Spence Publishing Company

Country of origin

United States

Release date

December 2006

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253 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x T)

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Hardcover - Sewn / Paper over boards / With dust jacket

Pages

217

ISBN-13

978-1-890626-68-6

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9781890626686

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1-890626-68-6



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