On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement, and the Vulnerable Christ

Fr. David Vincent Meconi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2621-9 (ISBN)

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On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement and the Vulnerable Christ explores St. Augustine of Hippo’s theology of sin, described as various forms of self-loathing and self-destruction, in addition to sin’s antidote, a vulnerable relationship with the crucified Christ. Incorporating recent thinking on self-destruction and self-loathing into his reading of Augustine, David Vincent Meconi explores why we are not only allured by sin, but will actually destroy ourselves to attain it, even when we are all too well aware that this sin will bring us no true, lasting pleasure.

Meconi traces the phenomena of self-destruction and self-loathing from Augustine to today. In particular, he focuses in on how self-love can turn to self-harm, and the need to provide salvage for such woundedness by surrendering to Christ, showing how Augustine's theology of sin and salvation is still crucially applicable in contemporary life and societies.

David Vincent Meconi, S.J., is the Director of the Catholic Studies Centre and Professor of Theology at Saint Louis University, USA. His recent publications include The One Christ: St. Augustine's Theology of Deification (2013) and, as editor, The Confessions: Saint Augustine of Hippo (2012) and (co-edited with Eleonore Stump) The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (2014). He is the Editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review.

Foreword by Eleonore Stump, St Louis University, USA
Abbreviations and Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter 1: God and Those Made to Become Like God
Chapter 2: Becoming God Without God?
Chapter 3: Those Pears: Sin As Self-Sabotage
Chapter 4: Narcissism and the Paradox of Self-Love
Chapter 5: Atonement and the Vulnerable Christ
Conclusion

Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Reading Augustine
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5013-2621-X / 150132621X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-2621-9 / 9781501326219
Zustand	Neuware