Personal Vocation: God Calls Everyone By Name.

[Innocent]

Has anyone here read this book?

They've got quite a decent number of pages available in the Google Books preview:

[url="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=fAyzRnt-uyIC&printsec=frontcover"]GOOGLE BOOKS: Personal Vocation By Germain Gabriel Grisez, Russell Shaw[/url]

It looks worth buying to me. I might be able to get it [url="http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/Books/Personal-Vocation-God-Calls-Everyone-by-Name-Germain-Grisez/9781592760213"]through a local bookstore[/url], even if it does cost Rs. 700/- .

[TeresaBenedicta]

I would highly recommend reading [i]anything[/i] by Grisez. This man is extremely holy and is an absolute genius. I've only begun reading this particuar book (Grisez is probably one of the most renowned moral theologian that the Church has seen in the past century, so he's written a lot of philosophy/moral theology books), but... just trust me, he's worth reading and the man, I have no doubt, will be canonized a saint after his death.

((As a side note, he has held the ArchBishop Flynn Chair of Chistian Ethics at my university & the seminary attached to the school... I've met the man twice... he's simply amazing.))

[kafka]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' post='1846801' date='Apr 25 2009, 01:19 AM']((As a side note, he has held the ArchBishop Flynn Chair of Chistian Ethics at my university & the seminary attached to the school... I've met the man twice... he's simply amazing.))[/quote]
I've only heard good things about him. Havent taken the time to get into his works quite yet but a friend of mine (whom I greatly respect) simply recommended him alongside of Rahner for my theological studies.

Where is he teaching now?

Edited April 25, 2009 by kafka

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='kafka' post='1846863' date='Apr 25 2009, 02:56 AM']I've only heard good things about him. Havent taken the time to get into his works quite yet but a friend of mine (whom I greatly respect) simply recommended him alongside of Rahner for my theological studies.

Where is he teaching now?[/quote]

I don't know if I'd quite compare him with Karl Rahner... I mean, Grisez is not a strict Thomist in his ethics, but he certainly has held completely faithful to the magisterium. Rahner went a little funny towards the end of his works.

As for where Grisez is teaching... he's retired/retiring. He's fairly old (80-something). He taught here last semester and I think he plans to teach one more course not next year but the year after. But he is technically retired as of this semester, and we have named a new Flynn Chair.

[kafka]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' post='1847072' date='Apr 25 2009, 08:09 AM']I don't know if I'd quite compare him with Karl Rahner... I mean, Grisez is not a strict Thomist in his ethics, but he certainly has held completely faithful to the magisterium. Rahner went a little funny towards the end of his works.

As for where Grisez is teaching... he's retired/retiring. He's fairly old (80-something). He taught here last semester and I think he plans to teach one more course not next year but the year after. But he is technically retired as of this semester, and we have named a new Flynn Chair.[/quote]
I wasnt comparing the two.

Is there any place I could gain access to some of his articles or writings online? His books seem hard to get or find.

[Innocent]

[quote name='kafka' post='1847357' date='Apr 26 2009, 12:16 AM']Is there any place I could gain access to some of his articles or writings online? His books seem hard to get or find.[/quote]

If you click on the first link in the first post in this thread, you can read a fair amount of pages in the Google Books preview of this book.

[kafka]

[quote name='Innocent' post='1848433' date='Apr 25 2009, 11:43 PM']If you click on the first link in the first post in this thread, you can read a fair amount of pages in the Google Books preview of this book.[/quote]
sounds good. Thanks.