Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others and Yourself - Softcover

Zahl, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587436329 ISBN 13: 9781587436321

Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2023

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The founder of Mockingbird Ministries argues that having an accurate view of humans helps us avoid the temptation to divide the world into good and bad people, provides the foundation for real relationships rooted in vulnerability, and leads us to a more liberating view of human nature, sin, and grace.

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David Zahl is founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, which receives more than 1 million website page views per year and 35,000 newsletter subscribers and social media followers. He is editor in chief of the Mockingbird blog and cohost of the Mockingcast podcast. Zahl wrote the critically acclaimed book Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It and has written for Christianity Today and the Washington Post. He lives with his wife and three boys in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he also serves on the staff of Christ Episcopal Church.

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We all go through life with an "anthropology"--an idea about what humans are like, our potentials and our limitations. A high anthropology--thinking optimistically about human nature--can breed perfectionism, anxiety, burnout, loneliness, and resentment.

David Zahl invites us into a biblically rooted and surprisingly life-giving low anthropology, which fosters hope, deep connection with others, lasting love, vulnerability, compassion, and happiness. He argues that having an accurate, humble view of humans helps us avoid the temptation to divide the world into good and bad people, provides the foundation for real relationships rooted in vulnerability, and leads us to a more liberating view of human nature, sin, and grace.

"Human limitation has never looked as good as it does in David Zahl's Low Anthropology. This book stands as a refreshing and much-needed antidote to our cultural fixation on achievement and self-optimization, and it is brimming with insights that feel both timely and timeless. At a moment when religious concepts like original sin are often misunderstood as vehicles of pessimism and shame, Zahl brilliantly reveals the paradoxical nature of this more humble understanding of our humanity, demonstrating how it can become an avenue toward radical compassion, acceptance, and grace."
--Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine

"As we mature in our faith, we can become less tolerant of those who make poor decisions because of their hopeless state. When I look at anyone who is challenged daily, I am reminded of the grace Christ afforded me. I am grateful for the unburdening words of hope that David Zahl offers in Low Anthropology."
--John Mosley, head basketball coach, East Los Angeles College; star of Last Chance U: Basketball

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1587436329
• ISBN 13: 9781587436321
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 203
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