Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- calling
- Transliteration
- calling
- Rejected alternatives
- finding your calling (the dominant contemporary secular sense: career vocation or personal passion, discovered through self-reflection rather than received from God)
Calling
Modern self-actualization culture has repurposed ‘calling’ as career vocation (‘teaching is my calling’) discovered through introspection, which risks reducing God’s initiative in Romans’ calling language to an individualist project of finding one’s own purpose. The direction of agency (God calls; the person does not self-select) must be stated explicitly.
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