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Do You Hear What I Hear? Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My Father
by Minna Proctor
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Viking Adult (2005-02-07)
ISBN: 067003326X
EAN: 9780670033263
Dewy Decimal #: 283.092
Hardcover: 288 pages
Release Date: 2005-02-07
Condition: New
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Product Description
At the first revelation that her father, a sixtyish university professor, wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is flummoxed. She neither encourages nor disparages him because she simply doesn’t know what it means. Brought up primarily by her mother in a household without any religious expression or guidance, Proctor was surprised to learn that her unconventionally charming, intellectual father had a religious life, and what’s more, a higher calling. When he is summarily turned away, Proctor delves into the byzantine discernment process that rejected her father from the priesthood and the pivotal notion of calling. Based on lengthy conversations with her father, interviews with clergy and religious scholars, and readings of classic faith narratives from Augustine to Simone Weil, Do You Hear What I Hear? is a broad-minded and fascinating exploration of a very human phenomenon in the light of cultural shifts over the last three decades.
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