Table of Contents

• Preface: Recovering the Context of Life
• 1. Clocks, Skins, and Mortality
• 2. How Life Is Measured
• 3. Death and Filiation
• 4. The Arc of Life
• 5. The Vocation of Singleness
• 6. Working and Eating
• Conclusion: The Church's Vocation to Number Our Days
• Notes
• Scripture Index
• General Index

About the Author

Ephraim Radner is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. His books include A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West and Hope among the Fragments: The Broken Church and Its Engagement of Scripture. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Reviews

For pointing to the fundamental nature of finitude and creatureliness and for writing in a manner manifesting that very mode of being, we are in Radner's debt. The book is commended, though the reader must be warned that, as in life, time will be taken to assimilate it. -- Michael Allen -- Reading Religion

Radner's prose is thoughtful, and he clearly names the complexities of contemporary life and presents a rich vision of the ways in which Christian wisdom calls humans to lives of meaning and purpose amid finitude. -- Choice

Anything written by Ephraim Radner can be guaranteed to be serious, constructively difficult, spiritually challenging and original, and this book is no exception...This establishes Radner as not only an unusually profound analyst of ecclesial and ecclesiological issues (his previous books have shown that in abundance), not only a theological essayist of near-genius, but a truly systematic theologian in the best sense, someone who can connect the great themes of dogmatic orthodoxy and scriptural figure to the challenges of our culture, which seems increasingly adrift from any idea of what common humanity--let alone common created identity--might amount to. -- Rowan Williams -- The Living Church

A formidable book repaid by a second reading -- Jeremy James -- Expository Times

Wide and expansive, sure to command the attention of scholars for years, even decades, to come. -- J. Todd Billings -- First Things

Ephraim Radner in A Time to Keep gives us considerable theological guidance for relating to our struggles with mortality, and how those struggles shape and form our lives, to our life as beings created by God. It is a remarkable effort, worthy of Radner's considerable skills and creative abilities. -- Mark Harris -- Anglican Theological Review