
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
- Foreword Reviews' 18th Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year for Body, Mind and Spirit
- 2015 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
Our bodies teach us about God, and God communicates to us through our bodies. Our bodies are more good than we can possibly imagine them to be. And yet at times we may struggle with feelings of shame and guilt or even pride in regard to our bodies. What is God trying to do through our skin and bones?In Embracing the Body spiritual director Tara Owens invites you to listen to your thoughts about your body in a way that draws you closer to God, calling you to explore how your spirituality is intimately tied to your physicality. Using exercises for reflection at the end of each chapter, she guides you to see your body not as an inconvenience but as a place where you can meet the Holy in a new way—a place to embrace God's glorious intention.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction: An Invitation to More
- 1 Where Do Our Fears Come From?
- 2 How We Lost Our Bodies
- 3 Broken Body, Broken Church
- 4 Dust to Dust: Incarnation, Body and Flesh
- 5 Angel or Animal: Beyond False Dichotomies
- 6 Beauty or Beast: Living with an Unglorified Body
- 7 Touch or Temptation: Issues Around Sexuality
- 8 Desire or Destruction: Exploring Our Impulses
- 9 Tension Taming: Embracing Our Fears, Finding Redemption
- 10 At Home in Your Skin: Exploring God’s Messages in Your Body
- 11 Sensing His Kingdom: Encountering God’s Physical Creation
- 12 Flesh of My Flesh: Union, Sexuality and God’s Design
- 13 This Is My Body: Connection and Communion with the Body of Christ
- Group Discussion Guide
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Praise for Embracing the Body
- About the Author
- Formatio
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