Description
Interspersing Augustine's own insights with modern accounts, this book traces the phenomena of self-destruction and self-loathing from Augustine to today.
About the Author
David 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.
Reviews
It 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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501326219
Author Fr. David Vincent Meconi
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 272g