Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues

Common Callings and Ordinary VirtuesEvery day, we do commonplace things and interact with ordinary people without giving them much thought. This volume offers a theological guide to thinking Christianly about the ordinary nature of everyday life. Leading ethicist Brent Waters shows that the activities and relationships we think of as mundane are actually expressions of love of neighbor that are vitally important to our wellbeing. We live out the Christian gospel in the contexts that

He shows how the arts can resist reductive impulses by opening us up to an unlimited abundance of meaning

About the Series

In this compact volume

Looking for a guide to interpreting the Bible that is accessible

viewing the Bible as a drama in six acts: creation

Examine the Old Testament from within the living tradition of the Catholic Church

and empathy

Kiesling assembles a toolkit that will help those in ministry think comprehensively about discipleship at every stage of life

lay readers interested in Islam

In this bestselling textbook

spreading through the Greco-Roman world with a mission agenda and church organization distinct from its roots in Jewish Galilee

including sections on the Apostles' Creed