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
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Natalia Marandiuc is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
"By combining philosophy, theology, neuroscience, and anthropology,
Marandiuc succeeds in presenting a nuanced Christian perspective on
human attachments and the making of the self." -- Sarah E. Burton,
Andrews University Seminary Studies
"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" -- Mary Emily Briehl Duba, Journal of Religion
"'The Goodness of Home is a timely text that speaks precisely to
our age of migration and mobility. It is also a powerhouse
constructive theology that will be read for generations. Combining
neuroscience, psychology, theology, and philosophy, Marandiuc
argues that close relationships form the space of belonging in
which the self emerges, flourishes, and can be repaired. With a
brilliant account of the interplay between divine and human love,
Marandiuc
contends that the universal call to neighbor love both enables and
requires honoring the specific intimacies of 'home.'"--Shannon
Craigo-Snell, author of The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and
Bodily Hope
"In this compelling book, Natalia Marandiuc has demonstrated just
how essential homes are, not only to our well-being, but to the
character of our very selves. To build good homes-homes that are
cradles of our being rather than hells of our lives-we need the
kind of clarity that she offers about the fundamental goodness of
home." -Miroslav Volf, author of Flourishing: Why We Need Religion
in a Globalized World
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