Paula Gooder, Body – Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person: In this short book Gooder explores Christian attitudes to the body, diving back into perceptions of body, flesh, spirit and soul in Jewish tradition and Greek philosophy, both of which would have fed into the writings of Paul on which the book concentrates. Where our faith is situated, how our bodies are regarded and should be treated, how they are used in our connexions with each other – hand shaking, body language, and so on – what part of ‘us’ survives after death or is resurrected and when, all are explored, and the conclusions Gooder reaches are perhaps surprising. As always, she tackles a difficult subject in a very readable way, with a good deal for the reader to think about.
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