We Are Home for Each Other / Natalia Marandiuc

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.