Andrew Roycroft reviews You Have a Calling by Karen Swallow Prior.
Calling, a crucial theme in Christian discipleship, is explored in depth and with clarifying force by Karen Swallow Prior in You Have a Calling. Beginning with a broad view of how our current culture conceives of work, passion and calling, Prior lays out a historical, literary and deeply Biblical vision of who we are as people and how our activities fit within God’s purposes.
Any work which tackles the theme of calling within a Christian worldview inevitably has some reconstructive work to do. With patience and through the most lucid of prose, Prior explores some of the misconceptions Western culture and Christian subculture can harbour about what it means to have a vocation or to be called. In the process, You Have a Calling leads the reader through the intellectual and labour-force changes that have taken place since the Industrial Revolution, culminating in an informal consensus that our working lives must be expressive of our vocational aspirations and passions.
