Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone by Tara M. Owens
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Embracing the Body
Embracing the Body
Summary
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.
Embracing the Body Summary
About Tara M. Owens
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.
Table of Contents
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
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
Additional information
GOR007394662
9780830835935
0830835938
Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone by Tara M. Owens
Used - Very Good
Paperback
InterVarsity Press
2015-02-11
256
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