Theologian Natalia Marandiuc explores the meaning of home and the authenticity of self in a world of both beautiful and toxic difference. She is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, and author of The Goodness of Home: Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self.

Show Notes

• Natalia Marandiuc, The Goodness of Home: Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self.
• The globalized world suffers from an impoverishment of heart.
• Home is a fraught place.
• Homes give human relationships sturdiness that Earth alone does not provide.
• Home as a noun and a verb.
• Using the neuropsychology of attachment
• Home as a dynamic that “allows for continuities and discontinuities.”
• Growing into freedom and agency.
• “Godself inhabits human relations of love, human attachment, therefore there is a dual creative act”
• Creative agency of home can be uses for good and bad.
• Retrieving the goodness of difference from origin stories.
• Healing by reweaving human relations.
• “A love-rich theological anthropology.”
• “The reformation of our imagination at one level and a reformation of our ability to act in the world.”
• Home, self and love each as triads that cannot be divorced.