Clothing: Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David H. Jensen is the academic dean and professor in the Clarence N. and Betty B. Frierson Distinguished Chair of Reformed Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Michele Saracino is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in New York City. Her books include On Being Human: A Conversation with Lonergan and Levinas (2003) and Being about Borders: A Christian Anthropology of Difference (2011) which was awarded first place in the theology category by the Association of Catholic Publishers.

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Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of the fundamental challenges to human existence is the anxiety caused by our desire to be perfect and godlike while knowing we are limited and mortal. This book explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties about our finitude. Through our clothing, we often shield ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others detect our emotional, physical, and spiritual vulnerabilities. Looking at the incarnation as a form of "dress," Saracino claims that getting naked with Jesus or embracing our vulnerability is our only hope at creating life-giving relationships with God and others in the global world.