Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
We rarely give thought to our bodies until we’re faced with a physical challenge or crisis. Somehow we’ve internalized the unbiblical idea that the immaterial aspect of our being--the soul or spirit--is inherently good, while the material aspect--the body--is at worst inherently evil and at best neutral. We think of the body as little more than a vehicle for the soul, so we end up neglecting or disparaging our bodies. We see them as holding us back from spiritual growth, and we long for the day when we will be free of them.
But the truth is, we don't have bodies; we are bodies. And God created us that way for a reason.
With Scripture as his guide, theologian Gregg Allison presents a holistic theology of the human body from conception through eternity and equips us to address pressing contemporary issues related to our bodies, including how we express our sexuality, whether gender is inherent or constructed, body image, the meaning of suffering, end-of-life questions, and ultimately how we can live as whole people in a fractured world.
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- Presents a holistic theology of the human body.
- Equips us to address pressing contemporary issues.
- Calls us to live as whole embodied people.
- Introduction
- 1 The Created Body
- 2 The Gendered Body
- 3 The Particular Body
- 4 The Social Body
- 5 The Sexual Body
- 6 The Son's Body
- 7 The Sanctified Body
- 8 The Blessed and Disciplined Body
- 9 The Worshiping Body
- 10 The Clothed Body
- 11 The Suffering and Healed Body
- 12 The Dead Body
- 13 The Future Body
- Conclusion
- Title: Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World
- Author: Gregg R. Allison
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 260
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Human body › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781540901743, 1540901742
- Resource ID: LLS:EMBODIED
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-24T01:01:56Z
Dr. Allison comes to Southern from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, where he had taught theology and church history for nine years. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL; Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL; Judson College, Elgin, IL; and Institute of Biblical Studies, Western Europe. Dr. Allison has 18 years of ministry experience as a staff member of Campus Crusade, where he worked in campus ministry as well as a missionary to Italy and Switzerland. He also co-pastored a church in Lugano, Switzerland. He is author of Getting Deep: Understand What You Believe About God and Why and Jesusology: Understand What You Believe About Jesus and Why, and he has five articles in The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions. He is currently the book review editor for theological, historical, and philosophical studies, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, a position in which he has served for the last seven years. Dr. Allison is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society in which he serves on the editorial and membership committees and regularly presents papers at its national meetings.