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SEMINARY\n\npěte30n;P告36en19⁹4.C·²932-Under the unpredictableplant  \nUnder the Unpredictable Plant:An Exploration in VocationalHoliness is the third of three books on the work of pastorsin North America.The three books together are designed toprovide a biblical orientation and theological understandingin cultural conditions decidedly uncongenial to such orienta-tion and understanding.  \nThis third volume uses the narrative of Jonah as a structurefor recovering the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral voca-tion in an age that relentlessly secularizes it into career devel-opment.Holiness,the cultivated habit of responding toGods word instead of fitting into the world's program,emerges as the vocational distinctive.  \nThe first two books in the series are Five Smooth Stones forPastoral Work and Working the Angles:The Shape of PastoralIntegrity.  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromPrinceton Theological Seminary Library  \nhttps://archive.org/details/underunpredictab00pete_0  \n\n| Eugene H.Peterson  \u003Cbr>Under th  \u003Cbr>Unpredictable  \u003Cbr>Plant  \u003Cbr>An Exploration in Vocational Holiness   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nWILLIAM B.EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANYGRAND RAPIDS,MICHIGAN  \nCopyright ◎1992 by Eugene H.PetersonAll rights reserved  \nPublished 1992 by Wm.B.Eerdmans Publishing Co.255 Jefferson Ave.S.E.,Grand Rapids,Michigan 49503First paperback edition 1994  \nPublished in association with the literary agency ofAlive Communications,PO.Box 49068,Colorado Springs,CO 80949  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n009998  \n7654  \n# Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data\n\nPeterson,Eugene H.,1932-  \nUnder the unpredictable plant:an exploration in vocational holiness/Eugene H.Peterson.  \nP.  \ncm.  \nISBN 0-8028-0848-4(pb)  \n1.Pastoral theology.2.Clergy—Religious life.  \n3.Bible.O.T.Jonah—Criticism,interpretation,etc.I.Title.  \nBV4011.P436  1992  \n248.8'92—dc20  \n92-24697  \nCIP  \nPortions of chapter two,\"Escaping the Storm,\"were adapted from the chapter\"Fyodor Dostoevsky:God and Passion,\"which Eugene Peterson contributedto the book Reality and the Vision,edited by Philip Yancey,copyright 1990 byThe Chrysostom Society.Used by permission of the publisher,Word,Inc.Dallas,Texas.  \nUnless otherwise noted,the Scripture quotations in this publication are fromthe Revised Standard Version of the Bible,copyrighted 1946,1952 ◎1971,1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council ofChurches of Christ in the U.S.A.,and used by permission.  \nFor my mother  \nEvelyn Edith Peterson  \nBorn February 6,1912  \nDied February 17,1984  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \n1  \nUndercapitalized VocationsVocational IdolatryThe Jonah Story  \n2 4 5  \n9  \nI.Buying Passage to Tarshish  \n10  \n1.Jonah DisobedientEscape to TarshishStay Where You AreEcclesiastical PornographyThe Travel Agent in Joppa  \n11  \n18  \n22  \n25  \n2.Jonah Obedient  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