{"product_id":"embracing-our-finitude-hardcover","title":"Embracing Our Finitude: Exercises in a Christian Anthropology Between Dependence and Gratitude - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephan Kampowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemento 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephan Kampowski is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and Family in Rome. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eArendt, Augustine and the New Beginning \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and \u003ci\u003eA Greater Freedom \u003c\/i\u003e(2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 188\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117151096967,"sku":"9781498244763","price":49.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a6b2cb30a320c61b4bda546d87313035.webp?v=1732521900","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/embracing-our-finitude-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}