Dust in the Blood

A Theology of Life with Depression

Jessica Coblentz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2022
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-8502-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Jessica Coblentz, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, where her research and teaching focuses on Catholic systematic theology, feminist theologies, and mental health in theological perspective.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2022
Verlagsort	Collegeville, MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Angst / Depression / Zwang
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8146-8502-1 / 0814685021
ISBN-13	978-0-8146-8502-0 / 9780814685020
Zustand	Neuware