A Stranger to Self-Hatred: A Glimpse of Jesus

A Stranger to Self-Hatred: A Glimpse of Jesus by Manning, Brennan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780871931832.

In this powerful book drawn from lived experience and the pages of the Bible, Father Brennan Manning deals with the central spiritual problem and illness of our time: the fragmentation of self as a result of guilt, fear, anger, and other matters that psychologists classify under the heading "self hatred." The term self-hatred means all those attitudes, postures, positions of life from which we fail to affirm the meaning of existence as a gift. The author treats these matters in great detail and shows how the life of Jesus offers a contrary pattern or paradigm to the pattern of life exhibited by contemporary men and women.