The Life of the Body: Physical Well-Being and Spiritual Formation
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ISBN: 0830835717 / Publisher: IVP Books, December 2012
"Jesus had a body." Beginning with this simple reminder, spiritual formation experts Valerie Hess and Lane Arnold look at how we relate as physical beings in a material world and how that forms our inner life. Filled with creative exercises, this book brings you into a new relationship with food, worship, the seasons, the planet and more.
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What does exercise have to do with our souls?How do our sleeping habits relate to being conformed to the likeness of Christ?What do our bodies have to do with spiritual formation?Valerie Hess has taken up these questions with her spiritual formation graduate students. And Lane Arnold has processed them with others as a spiritual director. They have discovered that the life of our bodies has quite a bit to do with the life of our souls.Together they have written a book that helps readers explorechoices about what we eatworshiping with our bodiesseasons of life for body and soulcaring for the planetand moreEach chapter has reflection questions and creative exercises to help you engage body and soul with these themes. This is not just a book to read. It's an invitation to a new way of experiencing God.
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