Embracing Our Finitude: Exercises in a Christian Anthropology between Dependence and Gratitude - Couverture souple

Kampowski, Stephan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1532618891 ISBN 13 : 9781532618895

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2018

Synopsis

Memento mori--remember death--this is how the medieval monks exhort us. Our life, given in birth and taken by death, is radically marked by finitude, which can be a source of great fear and anguish. Our finitude, however, does not in itself need to be something negative. It confronts us with the question of our life's meaning and spurs us on to treasure our days. Our contingency, as evidenced in our birth and death, reminds us that we have not made ourselves and that there is nothing necessary about the marvelous fact that we exist. Particularly from a Judeo-Christian perspective, embracing our finitude will mean gratefully accepting life as a completely gratuitous gift and living one's days informed by a sense of this gratitude.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephan Kampowski is Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome. He is the author of Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning: The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the Light of Her Dissertation on St. Augustine (2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1532618891
• ISBN 13: 9781532618895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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