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Inspiring!, October 14, 2006
This review is from: Entrepreneurs of Life: Faith and the Venture of Purposeful Living (Trinity Forum Study Series) (Paperback)
I liked this book. Its a good study into the life of a number of different influential individuals to discover their basis for what they did and other helpful tidbits and exerpts that gives insight into how we can evaluate our life and pursue purposeful living.
This book would probably be best suited to a small group study of motivated, intelligent 20-somethings with at least a moderate background in classical literature
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Purpose and fulfillment in the modern world, April 22, 2011
This review is from: Entrepreneurs of Life: Faith and the Venture of Purposeful Living (Trinity Forum Study Series) (Paperback)
The fourth book recently read by this reviewer from the Os Guinness edited "Trinity Forum Study Series" that is intended "to help thoughtful people examine the foundational issues through with faith acts upon the public good of modern society", addresses purpose and fulfillment in the modern world. As the editor explains in the introduction, "this book is for all who long to find and fulfill the purpose of their lives, but who desire to explore the issue carefully." And in reference to the book title, "the entrepreneur is the person who assumes the responsibility for a creative task, not as an assigned role, a routine function, or an inherited duty, but as a venture of faith, including risk and danger, in order to bring into the world something new and profitable to humankind. Called in this sense, and answering such a call by rising to it in faith, entrepreneurs of life use their talents and resources to be fruitful and bring added value into the world - quite literally making the invisible visible, the future present, the ideal real, the impossible an achievement, the desired an experience, the status quo dynamic, and the dream a fulfillment."
Personal favorites include passages from "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, which provides the answer "do it yourself" to the human quest for purpose and fulfillment, "Letters to Olga" by Václav Havel, which explores the notion of responsibility, "The Oak and the Calf" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famed survivor of Stalin's labor camps, which discusses his calling to write, "Telemachus" by François de Fénelon, which discusses mentoring within the context of an imaginative filling in of Books 5 through 15 of Homer's "Odyssey", and "Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer" by Barbara Montgomery Dossey, which recounts the extensive social barriers Nightingale had to surmount in answering her calling. As with the other texts in this series, what helps make this book work are the brief author biographies which introduce each reading, as well as the hundreds of sidebar quotes by a wide selection of individuals, from a broad spectrum of world views, conveniently inserted throughout. While the topic of this book is compelling, in the opinion of this reviewer it was unfortunately not as well put together as other texts in this series.
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