Clothing

The Story

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.

A paperback edition from 2012 of Clothing by Saracino Michele. It runs to 124 pages, in fine condition. Stock is limited to the copies on our shelves in Kuwait. Shelved under Religion & Spirituality. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.