Embracing the Body – Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone

Tara M. Owens (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2015
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3593-5 (ISBN)

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What is God trying to do through your skin and bones? 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. Your body is not an inconvenience—it is a place where you can meet the Holy in a new way.

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.

Tara M. Owens is senior editor for Conversations Journal. Owens also provides spiritual direction through Anam Cara Ministries and is a part-time instructor for the Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program at Benet Hill Monastery. She lives with her husband, Bryan, and their daughter in Colorado Springs.

Introduction: An Invitation to More

Part I: Body Reality

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

Part II: Facing the Fears

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

Part III: Becoming Whole

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

Appendix: Group Discussion Guide

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	306 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8308-3593-8 / 0830835938
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-3593-5 / 9780830835935
Zustand	Neuware