Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice A practical resource, Honoring the Body weaves together scripture, history, and lively stories that can help us recover and sustain an appreciation for ourselves as physical beings..In this exquisite
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| Title | : | Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0787967572 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2003-03-07 |
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Editorial : From Publishers Weekly This latest installment in Jossey-Bass's Practices of Faith series is at once a highly organized survey of human embodiment and a free-flowing meditation on the same. Paulsell, who teaches at Harvard Divinity School, works her way through topics such as bathing, clothing, eating and having sex, and sheds thoughtful light on each not-so-mundane practice. As she discusses each activity, she ponders its spiritual significance and explores Scriptural references to it. She asks, for example, what it means to clothe ourselves in Christ, thereby eschewing but at the same time maintaining our sexual and ethnic identity. These metaphysical questions give way to lovely stories from the lives of Paulsell and her loved ones, and from the autobiographical work of such writers as Anne Lamott and Elizabeth Ehrlich, the latter an agnostic Jew who chronicles her difficult but rewarding journey toward keeping kosher. Paulsell's approach is to ask rather than to answer questions, a
In this exquisite and sensitive book, author Stephanie Paulsell draws on resources from the Christian tradition to show how we can learn to celebrate the body's pleasures, protect the body's vulnerabilities, and develop the practices that will ultimately transform our troubled relationship with our bodies to one of honor and joy. A practical resource, Honoring the Body weaves together scripture, history, and lively stories that can help us recover and sustain an appreciation for ourselves as physical beings.
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