Embracing the Body
eBook - ePub

Embracing the Body

Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Embracing the Body

Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. Introduction: An Invitation to More
  8. 1 Where Do Our Fears Come From?
  9. 2 How We Lost Our Bodies
  10. 3 Broken Body, Broken Church
  11. 4 Dust to Dust: Incarnation, Body and Flesh
  12. 5 Angel or Animal: Beyond False Dichotomies
  13. 6 Beauty or Beast: Living with an Unglorified Body
  14. 7 Touch or Temptation: Issues Around Sexuality
  15. 8 Desire or Destruction: Exploring Our Impulses
  16. 9 Tension Taming: Embracing Our Fears, Finding Redemption
  17. 10 At Home in Your Skin: Exploring God’s Messages in Your Body
  18. 11 Sensing His Kingdom: Encountering God’s Physical Creation
  19. 12 Flesh of My Flesh: Union, Sexuality and God’s Design
  20. 13 This Is My Body: Connection and Communion with the Body of Christ
  21. Group Discussion Guide
  22. Author’s Note
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Praise for Embracing the Body
  26. About the Author
  27. Formatio
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