The miracle of birth and the mystery of death markhuman 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. In A
Time to Keep Ephraim Radner revalues mortality, reclaiming it as
God's own. Mortality should notbe resisted butreceived. 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 faithfulnessaand not
resignation, escape, denial, redefinition, or excessais the proper
response to the gift of humanity's temporal limitation. To live
rightly is to recognize and then willingly accept life's
limitations. In chapters on sex and sexuality, singleness and
family, education and vocation, andapanoply of end of life issues,
A Time to Keep plumbs the depths of the secularimagination,
uncovering the constantstrugglewith human finitudein its
myriadforms. Radner shows thatby wrongly positioningcreaturely
mortality, these parts of human experience havereceivedan
inadequate reckoning. A Time to Keep retrieves the most basic
confession of the Christian faith, that life is God's, which Radner
offers as grace, asthe basis for a Christian understanding of human
existence bound by its origin and telos. Thepossibilityand
purposeof what comes between birth and deathisorderedby the pattern
of Scripture,but isperformed faithfully onlyin obedience to
thelimits that bind it.
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