000			02079nam a22001697a 4500
999			_c7693 _d7693
020			_a9780802808486
050			_aBV40.11 _b.P44
100			_aPeterson, Eugene H.
245			_aUnder the unpredictable plant : _ban exploration in vocational holiness. _cEugene H Peterson.
260			_a Leominster, England _bGracewing, _c 1992
300			_aix, 197 pages ; _c24 cm
505			_aUndercapitalized Vocations. Vocational Idolatry. The Jonah Story -- I. Buying Passage to Tarshish. 1. Jonah Disobedient. Escape to Tarshish. Stay Where You Are. Ecclesiastical Pornography. The Travel Agent in Joppa. 2. Jonah Obedient. Professionalized Obedience. The Kind of Pastor We in Fact Are -- II. Escaping the Storm. 1. Repudiating Tarshish Religion. What Do You Mean, You Sleeper? The American Religious Ship. Throw Me into the Sea! 2. Recovering a Gospel Vocation. Songs and Stories and Red Bandannas. God and Passion. The Cornfield. Vocational Holiness. A Slow Leak. The Euclidean Threat. A Karamazov in Every Home. Seed-Planting Dostoevsky. Jonah's Sea Storm and Paul's Shipwreck -- III. In the Belly of the Fish. 1. Conditions. The Bottom Line. The Golden Calf. Hogging the Show. 2. Askesis. Three Days in the Belly. Holy Saturday. Prettyfeather. Monastery without Walls. 3. Prayer. The School of the Psalms. Rule. The Contemplative Pastor -- IV. Finding the Road to Nineveh. 1. Geography. James Joyce's Ulysses. A Day's Journey into Nineveh. Wendell Berry. The Congregation Is Topsoil. Spiritual Growth versus Religious Cancer. 2. Eschatology. Yet Forty Days. St. John's Revelation. Equally Yoked. Eschatological Laundry List -- V. Quarreling with God under the Unpredictable Plant. 1. The Stunted Imagination. Leonard Storm. A Hugely Dimensioned Destiny. The Mess of Creativity. Bruce. 2. The Recovered Vocation. Paradigm Shift. Messiahs, Managers, and Spiritual Directors. Reuben Lance. Karen. Making an Ending.
650			_aBible. -- Jonah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
650			_a Pastoral theology.
650			_aClergy -- Religious life.
942			_cBK