Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814685020)

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.

Author: Jessica Coblentz
ISBN-10: 0814685021
ISBN-13: 9780814685020
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2022
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.70d