{"product_id":"low-anthropology-the-unlikely-key-to-a-gracious-view-of-others-and-yourself-paperback","title":"Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Zahl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lighthearted yet high-minded exploration of failure's ability to serve as a gateway to grace. Readers will find this a balm.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of us spend our days feeling like we're the only one with problems, while everyone else has their act together. But the sooner we realize that everyone struggles like we do, the sooner we can show grace to ourselves and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLow Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, popular author and theologian David Zahl explores how our ideas about human nature influence our expectations in friendship, work, marriage, and politics. 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. Meanwhile, Zahl invites readers into a biblically rooted and surprisingly life-giving \u003ci\u003elow \u003c\/i\u003eanthropology, which fosters hope, deep connection with others, lasting love, vulnerability, compassion, and happiness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZahl offers a liberating view of human nature, sin, and grace, showing why the good news of Christianity is both urgent and appealing. By embracing a more accurate view of human beings, readers will discover a true and lasting hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perceptive, funny, subversive, and nourishing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMany of us spend our days feeling like we're the only one with problems, while everyone else has their act together. But the sooner we realize that everyone struggles like we do, the sooner we can show grace to ourselves and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLow Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, author and theologian David Zahl explores how our ideas about human nature influence our expectations in friendship, work, marriage, and politics. He offers a liberating view of human nature, sin, and grace, showing why the good news of Christianity is both urgent and appealing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy embracing a more accurate view of human beings, we can discover a true and lasting hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A remarkably perceptive, funny, subversive, and nourishing book that hasn't left my mind since I read it. David Zahl shows that transformation--and the kind of hope we can actually rely on--isn't to be found in the oppressive perfectionism of self-improvement but rather in accepting the liberating truth that we're all flawed, finite, prone to overconfidence and messing things up, and in need of forgiveness.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eOliver Burkeman\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFour Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the book I have been waiting for: an antidote to all the self-help nonsense that weighs down our bookshelves and our self-regard. I feel lighter, freer, and less alone with every word I read in Zahl's brilliant and truthful \u003ci\u003eLow Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eNadia Bolz-Weber\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAccidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I know of few people better equipped to cut through the religious noise of our day than David Zahl, and this book is no exception. While we're constantly being told to think better and expect more of ourselves, Zahl provides a counterintuitive take. He shows us that there's goodness in being merely human, and there's great humor to be found in it too.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMike Cosper\u003c\/b\u003e, author and director of podcasts at \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Zahl\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e blog and cohost of the \u003ci\u003eMockingcast\u003c\/i\u003e podcast. Zahl wrote the critically acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eSeculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. 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