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Book SynopsisDavid 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.
Trade ReviewIt takes great philosophical tact and a pastor’s humility to be able to enter into the troubled waters of self-hatred and find there the wreckage, still salvageable, of a lost love. David Meconi possesses tact and humility in abundance, and he writes beautifully on behalf of “those who want to disappear” (
desiderantibus evanescere). By his Augustinian lights, that is, at some time or another, just about all of us. * James Wetzel, Villanova University, USA *
Table of ContentsForeword 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
