Description: Offering a theological and biblical account of depression, 'Christianity and Depression' considers how depression has been understood and interpreted by Christians and how plausible and pastorally helpful these understandings are.
Brief description: Tasia Scrutton is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Leeds. She is the author of "Thinking through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility"
Review Quotes: "Now that mental health has become a matter of public concern, with some high-profile personal testimony and increasing acknowledgement of the social costs, this book brings to bear the skills of an experienced philosopher to expose and combat the theological background of the most damaging assumptions of the causes of mental illness -- such as the lurking fear that it is all your own fault, or that you are possessed by an evil spirit: in pellucid and accessible style this book is an illuminating and often moving contribution to liberating us from the secret grip of such irrational myths."--Revd Dr Fergus Kerr, OP