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

David Vincent Meconi

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781501326226
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Filosofía
• Subtopic: Filosofía de la religión

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.

INDEX

Note: Locators with letter ‘n’ refer to notes.

Abraham here

Absolute Being here, here

acceptance here, here, here

Adam and Eve here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here

agency here, here, here, here, here

alienation vii, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Alypius here–here, here

Ambrose here–here, here

Annunciation here

Answer to Julian (Augustine) here–here

Arius here–here

Ascension here

asceticism here–here, here

Athanasius of Alexandria here

Athenagoras of Athens here

Atlantic Monthly, The here

atonement here, here, here, here–here

identification here–here

incorporation here–here

transformation here–here

Auerbach, Eric here

Augustine and the Cure of Souls (Kolbet) here

Augustinian Rule here

autonomy here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

baptism here, here, here

Basil the Great here

Bataille, George here

beauty here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Blondel, Maurice here

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• Dedication Page
• Forword
• Abbrevation and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• God and Those Made to Become Like God
• Becoming God without God?
• Those Pears: Sin as Self-Sabotage
• Narcissism and the Paradox of Self-Love
• Atonement and the Vulnerable Christ
• conclusion
• Further Reading
• Index
• Copyright