Dust in the Blood : A Theology of Life with Depression

Coblentz, Jessica

Liturgical Press（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814685020
• DDC分類 248.8625

Full Description

2023 College Theology Society Best Book Award
2023 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Theology - Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption
2023 Association of Catholic Publishers Second Place Award, Theology

Dust in the Blood considers the harrowing realities of life with depression from a Christian theological perspective. In conversation with popular Christian theologies of depression that justify why this suffering exists and prescribe how people ought to relate to it, Jessica Coblentz offers another Christian approach to this condition: she reflects on depression as a wilderness experience. Weaving first-person narratives of depression, contemporary theologies of suffering, and ancient biblical tales of the wilderness, especially the story of Hagar, Coblentz argues for and contributes to an expansion of Christian ideas about what depression is, how God relates to it, and how Christians should understand and respond to depression in turn.  

Contents

Contents

PART I   Surveying the Landscape
Introduction   Dust in the Blood 3
Chapter 1   Depression as Unhomelikeness 17
Chapter 2   Popular Christian Theologies of Depression 49
Chapter 3   Critiques of Popular Christian Theologies of Depression 73
Chapter 4   How (Not) to Talk about Depression 87

PART II Sketching New Maps
Chapter 5   Depression as a Wilderness Experience: Theological Foundations 115
Chapter 6   Depression as an Hagaric Wilderness 141
Chapter 7   God and Salvation in the Wilderness of Depression 173
Chapter 8   Discipleship alongside Depression Sufferers 199
Conclusion   A Wilderness Within 219

Acknowledgments 227
Index 231