vocatio

There is a saying in Latin, vocatio perdita, damnatio secura, lost vocation, damnation for sure.

Spero News 2009

If happiness is the metric, it is entirely rational to become a philosopher if you are in that vocation anyway vocatio = "to call".

Times are hard... for philosophers... Ann Althouse 2009

Actually, Friends (Quakers) rejected the Catholic concept of “vocatio” (Latin) = “vocation” or “calling” (English), because the term implied that such a calling was life-long.

Quaker Query: Have you found your vocation? | Mind on Fire 2006

-- Ed. [105] Both in the Amsterdam edition of 1761, a nd Hengstenberg's, the word is vocatio; but as the French translation gives reste, and the Old

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

I would argue that although Luther was a man of the Middle Ages in many respects, it is precisely in this respect that Luther broke new ground with his views on vocatio.

Luther and Calvin Preisinger, Arthur A. 1983

And what he intends by “prædestinati,” he informs you according to the judgment of Austin and Thomas: “Nomine prædestinationis ad gloriam, solum eam prædestinationem intelligunt (Augustinus et Thomas) qua electi ordinantur efficaciter, et transmittuntur ad vitam æternam; cujus effectus sunt vocatio, justificatio, et perseverantia in gratia usque ad finem.”

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Quod quoad ipsos non tantum facile fieri posset, sed et indubie fieret; respectu autem Dei fieri omnino non potest: eum nec consilium ipsius mutare, promissio excidere, vocatio secundum propositum revocari, Christi meritum, intercessio, et custodia irrita reddi nec Spiritus Sancti obsignatio frustranea fieri aut deleri possit.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Dei fieri omnino non potest: eum nec consilium ipsius mutare, promissio excidere, vocatio secundum propositum revocari, Christi meritum, intercessio, et custodia irrita reddi nec Spiritus Sancti obsignatio frustranea fieri aut deleri possit.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Efficax haec vocatio est a sola free and special grace alone, not from any thing at all foreseen in man; [1298] who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, [1299] he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Gentium vocatio mirabile est divinae bonitatis opus, quod filiis parentes et avi nepotibus tradere per manus debent, ut nunquam ex hominum animis silentio deleatur.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860