The Goodness of Home: Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self

ISBN-13: 9780190674502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Natalia Marandiuc

Opis

In this wide-ranging contribution to Christian theological anthropology, Natalia Marandiuc offers a constructive theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. Human loves and the love of God are portrayed here as co-creating the self and situating human subjectivity in a relational "home."

Recenzje

In this beautifully written and carefully crafted book, Natalia Marandiuc offers to the theological imagination a relational conception of home. To do so, she shows us a creative confluence between Søren Kierkegaard's writings on love and subjectivity and attachment theory's account of the innate human desire and need for secure, relational attachments. At this confluence, she raises theological questions about nature, grace, and being human. The result is a luminous constructive theological anthropology for our time. Theological anthropologies often describe the human person as fundamentally

O autorze

Natalia Marandiuc is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.