[Awakening Vocation] is in total a marvelous contribution to a vital endeavor: providing serious theological underpinnings for discussion of vocation today.
Maureen O’Brien, Duquesne University
Hahnenberg provides a thorough and readable account of how the notion of vocation has been understood by many of the major theologians since the Reformation. Those of us involved in vocation ministry today find ourselves grappling with the question, ‘How do I recognize an authentic vocation in an enquirer into religious life?’, and it is hugely helpful to have someone map out the historical terrain that is the hinterland of our work. To read this book is to be enriched theologically … but it is also to be drawn into a reflection on one’s own vocation which brings with it its own enrichment.
Matthew Power, SJ, The Way
A comprehensive, clear, and challenging work
Bishop Robert Morneau, Emmanuel Magazine
Edward Hahnenberg has made a significant contribution to the understanding of vocational questions today with his in-depth, scholarly, and thorough work on vocation and Christian call. The text is rich, complex and well worth reading and pondering. The power and mystery of God working in the lives of individuals deserves such a profound effort.
Horizon: Journal of the National Religious Vocation Conference
This book will make for fruitful spiritual reading for the theologically informed reader. It will also provide helpful background for those whose calling is spiritual formation, direction, and leadership in a church ever called to deepen its commitments to, and understanding of, God’s challenge in history.
Emmanuel
I highly recommend this book for liturgical academics and students. It challenges us to think liturgy in a different way.
Liturgical Ministry
I’ve been searching for a theological reflection on ‘call’ for a long time. Your book brings my search to an end.
Don Cozzens
John Carroll University
Author of Freeing Celibacy
As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops discussed and approved its guidebook for the emerging lay ministries titled ‘Coworkers in the Vineyard,’ much was made of the need for a comprehensive study of the use of the term vocation in the life of the Church. Awakening Vocation by Edward Hahnenberg is exactly what was being called for. This extensive study will benefit anyone seeking to understand lay ecclesial ministry and its place in the Church.
Most Rev. Gerald F. Kicanas, DD Bishop of Tucson
