Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone, by Tara M. Owens
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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.
Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone, by Tara M. Owens- Amazon Sales Rank: #120029 in Books
- Brand: IVP Books
- Published on: 2015-03-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .70" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Review "Owens, a certified spiritual director and senior editor for Conversations Journal, addresses the disconnect most of us, and our churches, experience between ourselves and the physical world around us, even though it is in the body that heaven actively meets earth. Through a gentle, compassionate exploration of our thoughts and feelings about our bodies, enhanced with exercises for reflection, Owens helps us to learn what it means to be at home in our own skin and sensitive to the body's innate wisdom." (Kristine Morris, ForeWord Reviews, Spring 2015)"Wise, erudite, loving and tender, Embracing the Body will bring true healing and wholeness to our theology of our physical bodies as a church. Tara Owens is the perfect guide for this holy journey." (Sarah Bessey, author of Jesus Feminist)"This book is beautiful, learned and wise. It will make you think, and it will make you want to say 'amen'―and, more important, it will enable you more fully to live as a body." (Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Still)"Tara Owens's Embracing the Body is a gift for anyone seeking to understand how the body―with all of its twitches, itches and bentness toward false unions―is not an enemy of spiritual formation but an amazing gift from God and the ground for personal incarnation―experiencing the reality of the apostle Paul's number one teaching point, Christ within. She makes great use of real-life stories and engaging theological reflection." (Gary W. Moon, executive director, Dallas Willard Center, Westmont College)"Truth. Beauty. Revelation. Those are just some of the words to describe Embracing the Body by Tara Owens. It is a rare and insightful book written by a poet who longs to love Jesus with every fiber of her being and invites others to do the same." (Stasi Eldredge, coauthor of Captivating)"Tara M. Owens is a rare find among contemporary writers. Part theologian, part mystic, her insight is bold and rich, and her writing is fine-tuned. . . . I'm grateful for the ways Tara's words have revealed some of my own wounds and fears and helped me make space for new ways of encountering God, through the body, in the body. I will be meditating on this book for a long time to come. I hope the same for you." (Micha Boyett, author of Found: A Story of Questions, Grace & Everyday Prayer)"Tara Owens offers us a wise and tender exploration of the gifts our bodies offer to us as portals into God's grace and wisdom. This book is much needed and should be required reading in every church's adult faith formation program. Tara doesn't just invite us to read, but to ponder, to engage and to practice so that we might claim the truth of the incarnation in new ways." (Christine Valters Paintner, abbeyofthearts.com, author of The Artist's Rule)"Tara Owens writes with warmth and wisdom on a subject that many Christians have at best distrusted or at worst discarded―our bodies as carriers and avenues of spiritual growth and connection with God. We claim to be people of the incarnation but often live as if only our souls mattered and our bodies did not. Owens calls us back to our whole selves―body and soul―and in doing so helps us reconnect with incarnational living both through the central historical event that kicked off Christian movement and our ongoing task of being the disciples of Jesus cloaked in flesh and blood." (Brent Bill, coauthor of Awaken Your Senses and Finding God in the Verbs)"With tender words and emotional depth, Owens offers a sacred space to ponder the fears of our bodies and how the subtle and overt messages we receive from church and society numb us to the murmurs from God that reverberate through our flesh and bones. . . . What does it mean to be at home in your skin? Step into Embracing the Body to continue your own healing towards an embodied faith." (Ashley Goff, Presbyterian Outlook, June 11, 2015)"Tara Owen's book . . . presents a compelling vision of what an integrated self―a self no longer divided into pure spirit and problematic body―looks and feels like. . . . Embracing the Body provides a heartfelt, accessible introduction to the many ways we can begin to bring body and spirit back together, figure out what our bodies have to do with our faith and embrace the remarkable implications of a God who took on human flesh." (Ellen Painter Dollar, Englewood Review of Books, Lent 2015)"God has created us to be connected to our bodies, and life has a way of disconnecting us. Tara has begun a conversation that will be helpful to many who feel alienated or even in conflict with their own bodies." (Dr. Henry Cloud, author of Boundaries and Never Go Back)
About the Author Tara M. Owens (MTS, Tyndale Seminary) is a Certified Spiritual Director and the senior editor for Conversations Journal, a forum for authentic spiritual transformation. Owens also provides spiritual direction through her ministry Anam Cara and is a part-time instructor for the Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program at Benet Hill Monastery, both based in Colorado Springs.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Outstanding - destined to become a classic By TMPlym I have been waiting and waiting for a book like this to come out. In the self-help section of the bookstores there is a huge section on 'mind-body-spirit' and how those three interrelate, and yet - bafflingly - I can't think of a single good Christian book on a theology of the body and how our body affects our spirituality and vice versa. Until now. This is one of those books I know I will be recommending to everyone. Historically, our theology has been so skewed by the Ancient Greek ideas and Platonism, that Christians tend to denounce our body as the den of sin, or deny we have a body at all, and try to exist in the land of mind and ideas. Owens revisits the Bible and the Church fathers in order to recover a truly Christian view of the body. But more than a theology of the body, she reclaims our bodies as a way of connecting with God. She's a qualified spiritual director, which shows in the prayerful and thoughtful creative exercises (which come at the end of every chapter). I found it helpful to reflect on how our bodies, rather than distracting us from spiritual things, can point us towards God and the gospel. Four things I particularly enjoyed about this book: - It is stunningly, beautifully written. I cannot remember the last time I read a book that combined thoughtful theology, insightful Biblical exegesis, practical application and exquisite writing. Tara Owens is a masterful storyteller, and the examples from her own life and others to illustrate and apply her points are stunningly, memorably told. It is rare that a book on theology - especially one that is written for the lay person and is so well applied - is as beautiful as a literary fiction book. It was a real pleasure reading it. - The creative exercises. So often I find theology books too ethereal, but this book kept me grounded and prayerful with the exercises at the end of each chapter. I found myself listening out for the sound of crunching crisps, and the pleasure of stroking soft textiles, and really thankful to God for my body. - The reclaiming of the body as something good, but limited. So often Christian books on the body say they think our bodies are good, but then they spend the rest of the book saying how dangerous the body is. Tara Owens' analysis is much more sophisticated, and takes in the whole of biblical wisdom and early church writings. - Tara's honesty. She writes so much of her own story - battles of body image and ill health as well as sex and sexuality - that it really grounds the theology. This is one of the best Christian books I have read in a long while, destined to become a classic - I will be unashamedly raving about it to everyone I meet. *Disclosure: I received a free copy of the book in return for my honest review, which this is*
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Rich Reflections on Embodiment By Dan Brennan I found this book to be a refreshing and glorious step toward a holistic integration and healing of sexuality and the body. Christians are paying greater attention to the whole theme of embodiment. Several books have come out in recent years seeking to guide us through a fresh understanding of our bodies from a Christian perspective. There are some books that major on the sex part in focusing on the body with a genital-driven view of sexuality and they tend to be written by men. There are other books which talk about embodiment but hardly engage the explosive issue of sexuality.Owens provokes us to think about wholeness, healing, and fullness in the deep connection between sexuality and the body from a seasoned and mature female perspective. Evangelicals (this book is published by IVP) are so far behind when it comes to producing books by women on the subject of sexuality and embodiment. Sure, one can find books written by women that repeat the formulas and fears emanating from the evangelical purity sub-culture.The breadth of evangelical spirituality seeking to integrate embodiment and sexuality is beginning to emerge in the twenty first century. Owens invites us to move past stereotypical and formulaic approaches to the body. She doesn't offer superficial sound bites that reinforce a placating piecemeal ethic for the body. She presents a rich reflection on our fears, desires, struggles, and hopes as we seek redemption in our bodies. She courageously invites us to something more.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Stories in Our Bones By Lana Phillips I met the author Tara Owens through a writing group on Facebook and was intrigued by the idea of her book Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone. When she was looking for people to receive review copies in exchange for honest reviews, I offered quickly because the juxtaposition of physicality and spirituality is something you rarely see in a positive context. Reading it through the eyes of someone who lives with disability and who has had body image issues for as long as I can remember, I found the book healing. The question, “What is God trying to do through our skin and bones?” found on the back cover challenged me to ask myself that about my tired, broken-ish 47-year-old body. I didn’t find answers, but what a holy question instead of cursing my body for what it can no longer do.She talks of blessing our bodies, each individual part of it, and this calls out to me. I want to bless my body and embrace it, for what it is, for what it can do, what it can give me. I am in the middle of something called narrative yoga to help me do this as well. The stories that rest in our flesh and bone are the ones that will transform both ourselves and the world around us.
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