Goodness of Home - Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self

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."

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• I. Why Home? A Preamble about the Argument's Theological Significance


• II. Human Double Embeddedness: Frameworks of Meaning and Significant Relationships


• III. Theological Implications from Attachment Theory


• IV. Human Difference and Particular Subjectivity


• V. Human and Divine Love Co-Creating the Self


• VI. The Goodness of Home: Attachment as Anthropological and Pneumatological Middle Space


• Bibliography

About the author

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

Summary

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."

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: Natalia Marandiuc, Natalia (Assistant Professor of Christi Marandiuc, Natalia (Assistant Professor of Christian Theology Marandiuc
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2018
• EAN: 9780190674502
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067450-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: AAR Academy Series; AAR Academy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, Theology, Christianity, Philosophy of religion, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships