{"product_id":"a-time-to-keep-theology-mortality-and-the-shape-of-a-human-life-hardcover","title":"A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEphraim Radner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe miracle of birth and the mystery of death mark human life. Mortality, like a dark specter, looms over all that lies in between. Human character, behavior, aims, and community are all inescapably shaped by this certainty of human ends. Mortality, like an unwanted guest, intrudes, becoming a burden and a constant struggle. Mortality, like a thief who steals, even threatens the ability to live life rightly. Life is short. Death is certain. Mortality, at all costs, should be resisted or transcended. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep\u003c\/i\u003e Ephraim Radner revalues mortality, reclaiming it as God's own. Mortality should not be resisted but received. Radner reveals mortality's true nature as a gift, God's gift, and thus reveals that the many limitations that mortality imposes should be celebrated. Radner demonstrates how faithfulness--and not resignation, escape, denial, redefinition, or excess--is the proper response to the gift of humanity's temporal limitation. To live rightly is to recognize and then willingly accept life's limitations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn chapters on sex and sexuality, singleness and family, education and vocation, and a panoply of end of life issues, \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the depths of the secular imagination, uncovering the constant struggle with human finitude in its myriad forms. Radner shows that by wrongly positioning creaturely mortality, these parts of human experience have received an inadequate reckoning. \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep\u003c\/i\u003e retrieves the most basic confession of the Christian faith, that life is God's, which Radner offers as grace, as the basis for a Christian understanding of human existence bound by its origin and telos. The possibility and purpose of what comes between birth and death is ordered by the pattern of Scripture, but is performed faithfully only in obedience to the limits that bind it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEphraim Radner is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. His books include \u003ci\u003eA Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHope among the Fragments: The Broken Church and Its Engagement of Scripture\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495894909216,"sku":"9781481309462","price":98.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/9081ff97c55f6103f361403ffc187443.webp?v=1776531154","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/a-time-to-keep-theology-mortality-and-the-shape-of-a-human-life-hardcover","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}