Product Description:   In this research the authors find universal patterns in those who enter religious life and in those who will later leave.

Product Description: What are the psychological and social motivations that influence people to enter the priestly or religious life? Are these motivations easily changed, or do they tend to persist as they were? What dispositions help people to persevere in their vocation, or push them towards leaving? The first volume of the present study, stressing the indispensible action of God's grace, develops an anthropology of the Christian vocation, that is, a Christian vision of what the human person is and can become in answering God's call...read more

Product Description: Psychological Structure and Vocation is an important work in the field of religious psychology. Rulla, Imoda and Ridick have made a prizewinning scientific study of the reasons which motivate men and women to enter vocation and either to persevere or to abandon it...read more

Product Description: A broad study of the anthropology of the Christian vocation, stressing the indispensable action of God’s graceand presenting a unified anthropology in which theology, philosophy, and social psychology converge. Particularattention is given to the need to see the Christian vocation not only in terms of virtue or sin, but also in terms ofthe real good versus the apparent good...read more