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Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be, 2nd Ed.
Contributor(s): Schwehn, Mark R. (Editor), Bass, Dorothy C. (Editor)
ISBN: 0802877141     ISBN-13: 9780802877147
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $35.99  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living - Calling & Vocation
- Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts
- Self-help | Personal Growth - General
Dewey: 248.4
LCCN: 2019046699
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (2.05 lbs) 650 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Leading Lives That Matter compiles a wide range of texts--from ancient and contemporary literature, social commentary, and philosophy--related to questions of vital interest for those who are trying to decide what to do with their lives and what kind of human beings they hope to become. This book draws upon both religious and secular wisdom, bringing these sources into conversation with one another.

Mark Schwehn and Dorothy Bass identify four vocabularies typically used in discussions of the meaning of life choices: authenticity, virtue, exemplarity, and vocation. Six guiding questions shape the chapters that contain the majority of the texts. Each chapter's texts provide a variety of insights and approaches to be considered in addressing the question, arranged and introduced in ways that prompt deeper reflection. Leading Lives That Matter invites readers into arguments that have persisted for generations about what we human beings should do and who we should be.

This second edition includes forty-seven new readings from a diverse array of writers, including Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Levertov, Malcolm Gladwell, Julia Alvarez, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King Jr., Pope Francis, and Chung Tzu. Three new guiding questions have also been added: To whom and to what should I listen as I decide what work to do? With whom and for whom shall I live? What are my obligations to future human and other life?


Contributor Bio(s): Schwen, Mark R.: - Mark R. Schwehn is professor of humanities in Christ College and project director of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, Valparaiso University.Bass, Dorothy C.: - Dorothy C. Bass is director emerita of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.