Vocation Through the Lifespan
In our initial gatherings on vocation and profession, participants often voiced questions of vocation related to particular periods of the lifespan, from youth and young adulthood through retirement and the elder years. It became clear that in order to develop a more robust theology of vocation, a closer look at vocation through each phase of the lifespan was needed. The Seminar on Vocation through the Lifespan was thus created to explore the emerging development of vocation over a lifetime.
The Seminar on Vocation through the Lifespan is being launched in 2011 with a core group of pastors, social scientists, and theologians from across the disciplines. The Seminar will explore dimensions of vocation in relationship to childhood, youth, young adulthood, adulthood, retirement, and the elder years.
The central questions for the Seminar on Vocation through the Lifespan include:
- How can a theology of vocation account for God's call in relationship to our whole lives, our whole life long?
- How does an understanding of vocation develop throughout the evolving stages of the lifespan and the particularities of age, context, and challenges that change over time?
- What could a theology of vocation through the lifespan offer to the social sciences in terms of understanding identity construction and the search for meaning and purpose in life?
