{"product_id":"mortal-goods-reimagining-christian-political-duty-9781540963802","title":"Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty","description":"This book by one of today's leading theologians examines how Christians might more faithfully and realistically imagine their political vocation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEphraim Radner explains that our Christian calling is to limit our political concerns to the boundaries of our created lives: our birth, parents, siblings, families, brief persistence in life, raising of children, relations, decline, and death. He shows that a Christian approach to politics is aimed at tending and protecting these \"mortal goods\" and argues for a more constrained view of our mortal life and our political duty than is common in both progressive and conservative Christian perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRadner encourages us to take seriously what is most valuable in our lives and allow this to shape our social posture. Our vocation is to offer our limited life to God, give thanks for it, and glorify God by living our lives as a gift. Radner also shows how \"catastrophe\" reveals our time to be fragile, bounded, and easily overturned. And he exposes \"betterment,\" which lies behind most modern politics, as a false motive for human life. The book concludes with a vision of the good life articulated in the form of a letter to his adult children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEphraim Radner \u003c\/b\u003e(PhD, Yale University) is professor emeritus of historical theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eA Profound Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime and the Word\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Time to Keep\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Brutal Unity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Church\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLeviticus \u003c\/i\u003ein the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. A former church worker in Burundi and an Anglican priest, he has served parishes in various parts of the United States and has been active in the affairs of the global Anglican Communion.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baker Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727264190738,"sku":"9781540963802","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e967327-7ddb-4517-b97d-293a652499cd.jpg?v=1734898636","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mortal-goods-reimagining-christian-political-duty-9781540963802","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}