A Body of Praise
eBook - ePub

A Body of Praise

Understanding the Role of Our Physical Bodies in Worship

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Body of Praise

Understanding the Role of Our Physical Bodies in Worship

About this book

Do our physical bodies really matter in corporate worship? Isn't our soul the most important part of us? Aren't our bodies, at best, negligible to worship and, at worst, a hindrance? The answer to this last question is categorically no, as Christians have attested throughout history and across the global church. The purpose of the body instead is to offer to God in worship what only it can offer--and what must be offered to God.

By drawing on the wisdom of the Bible, church history, and theology, and by taking advantage of the unique insights of the arts and sciences, ethics, and spiritual formation, a respected theologian and pastor argues in this book that there is something for our physical bodies to do that decisively forms Christlikeness in us within the context of corporate worship. What we do with our postures, gestures, and movements in worship matters. How our senses of sight, scent, sound, taste, and touch are involved in worship matters. How our spontaneous and prescriptive activities form us in worship matters. All of it matters to faithful and fulsome worship for the sake of a body that is fully alive in the praise of God.

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Table of contents

  1. iEndorsements
  2. iiiHalf Title Page
  3. vTitle Page
  4. viCopyright Page
  5. viiDedication
  6. ixContents
  7. xiAcknowledgments
  8. 11 The Glory of the Body
  9. 152 The Map of the Body
  10. 293 The Story of the Body
  11. 434 The Benediction of the Body
  12. 555 The Future of the Body
  13. 676 The True Image of the Body
  14. 817 The Nature of the Body
  15. 958 The Art of the Body
  16. 1099 The Way of the Body
  17. 12510 The Discipline of the Body
  18. 13911 The Freedom of the Body
  19. 15312 The End of the Body
  20. 165Notes
  21. 201Scripture Index
  22. 205Subject Index
  23. 211Back Cover