Echo of the Soul: The Sacredness of the Human Body
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819219088 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 149 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Using the Old Testament Wisdom literature, which informed Celtic spirituality's positive understanding of what it means to be human, Newell looks at each part of the body as a sacred text that reveals something of the Divine. Many of our contemporary negative preoccupations with physical appearance, image, and sexuality derive from this ancient and habitual denial of the notion that we were created in God's image.In Echo of the Soul bestselling author J. Throughout much of Christian history, spiritual seekers have considered the body to be, at best, a hindrance to spiritual enlightenment, and, at worst, an enemy to be suppressed. Few issues have caused the church more difficulty through the ages than those surrounding the human body. Looking back to a time before Christians began to distrust their physicality, Newell shows that our most ancient texts challenge modern assumptions about love, beauty, sexuality, learning, wisdom, power, and responsibility, and bridges the body/spirit divide.. Philip Newell finds that the human body, like creation, is actually the dwelling place of God
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Newell is to be commended for drawing extensively on Jewish sources, which Christian writers usually overlook. Any Christian who has been attracted to the Eastern chakra system will be thankful to find a Gospel-friendly version of the same basic truths: different parts of the body relate to different aspects of our being, and body and soul can and should be fully integrated. Overall, this is a well-meaning but unsatisfying stab at an important topic. He quotes so frequently from other spiritual writers Meister Eckhart, Bernard of Clairvaux, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Gerard Manley Hopkins that one wonders if Newell really has anything original to say; at places, this reads more like Newell's personal commonplace book. From Publishers Weekly Christians have been accused of maintaining a strict, sometimes detrimental, split between body and soul. Here, Edinburgh's New
"Beautiful" according to Grant Sowter. Elegantly written. Beautiful concepts. Such a timeless piece. Will come back to this work many times to think through the ideas put forth. Highly recommend this book to you.. Spiritual Recalibration is Vital Amazon Customer A refreshing wholistic view of humanity and its inseparable dance with the divine. Midwest Book Review said A thoughtfully reasoned testimony of Christian faith. Accessibly written by J. Philip Newell (a minister of the Church of Scotland), Echo Of The Soul: The Sacredness Of The Human Body deftly presents the idea that the human body is not an obstacle to ascending to the divine, but rather the dwelling place of God, and truly created in God's image. Echo Of The Soul is confidently recommended as a powerful and thoughtfully reasoned testimony of Christian faith offering informed and informative insights concerning the importance of both human and divine love as manife