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Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body

by John W. Kleinig
Hardcover |English |1683594673 | 9781683594673

Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body

by John W. Kleinig
Hardcover |English |1683594673 | 9781683594673
Overview
Why do we have bodies?

When it comes to thinking about our bodies, confusion reigns. In our secular age, there has been a loss of the body's goodness, purpose, and end. Many people, driven by shame and idolatry, abuse their body through self-harm or self-improvement. How can we renew our understanding and see our bodies the way God does?

In Wonderfully Made, John Kleinig forms a properly biblical theology of our bodies. Through his keen sensitivity to Scripture's witness, Kleinig explains why bodies matter. While sin has corrupted our bodies and how we think of them, God's creation is still good. Thus, our bodies are good gifts. The Son took on a body to redeem our bodies. Kleinig addresses issues like shame, chastity, desire, gender dysphoria, and more, by integrating them into the biblical vision of creation.
Readers of Wonderfully Made will not only be equipped to engage in current issues; they will gain a robust theology of the body and better appreciation of God's very good creation.
ISBN: 1683594673
ISBN13: 9781683594673
Author: John W. Kleinig
Publisher: Lexham Press
Format: Hardcover
PublicationDate: 2021-04-14
Language: English
PageCount: 256
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.0 x 8.6 inches
Weight: 15.2 ounces
Why do we have bodies?

When it comes to thinking about our bodies, confusion reigns. In our secular age, there has been a loss of the body's goodness, purpose, and end. Many people, driven by shame and idolatry, abuse their body through self-harm or self-improvement. How can we renew our understanding and see our bodies the way God does?

In Wonderfully Made, John Kleinig forms a properly biblical theology of our bodies. Through his keen sensitivity to Scripture's witness, Kleinig explains why bodies matter. While sin has corrupted our bodies and how we think of them, God's creation is still good. Thus, our bodies are good gifts. The Son took on a body to redeem our bodies. Kleinig addresses issues like shame, chastity, desire, gender dysphoria, and more, by integrating them into the biblical vision of creation.
Readers of Wonderfully Made will not only be equipped to engage in current issues; they will gain a robust theology of the body and better appreciation of God's very good creation.
Editorial Reviews


This adventure in searching the Scriptures will enrich the reader's ability to enjoy God's giving us our corporality and to find in it rich grounds for thanksgiving and praise. --Robert Kolb, emeritus professor of systematic theology, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis


Wonderfully Made is a tremendous and accessible guide for Protestants who are beginning to turn (at last!) our attention toward what it means to live in the flesh that God gave us. --Matthew Lee Anderson, assistant professor, Baylor University and Founder of Mere Orthodoxy


Love of God and love of Christ, yes--but why love our bodies? This book places Christian teaching on sex and marriage into their true context in light of the creation, fall, and redemption of our bodies. Kleinig joyfully lifts up our bodies as God's gift, whose purpose is to foster self-giving love, building communion with each other and with God in Christ and his Spirit. With scriptural depth, and without minimizing the ugliness of sin and death, Kleinig shows us how our bodies belong to God's good news of salvation, love, and life. This book is an invitation not only to a more faithful practice of singleness or marriage, but also to a deeper sense of what it means to worship the incarnate Lord. --Matthew Levering, James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary


This book will surely take its place among the growing library of works that treat this fascinating subject. I cannot recommend it too highly! --Gregg R. Allison, professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary


When so much written about the body is polemical, political, or perverse, how good it is to read an author who is on the side of the angels, not the cynics. --Thomas M. Winger, President of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario, CA


Wonderfully Made provides a welcome and worthy complement to Catholic and Orthodox theologies of the body by John Paul II and Jean-Claude Larchet. [...] this book promises to become a standard go-to text on the agony and ecstasy of physical Christian existence for seminaries, teachers, pastors, parishes, and personal study. --Adam G. Cooper, Associate professor of theology and church history, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne


Written against the neo-gnostic spirituality of our day, with its focus on the mind at the expense of the body, Kleinig's engaging book is a powerful defence of the embodied spirituality of the Bible. Its deep exegetical and pastoral insights combine to make this a book that speaks to both the head and the heart. Written for a broad spectrum of readers from rank and file Christians to pastors and teachers of theology, the author shows that the body is indeed wonderfully made because it has been created, redeemed, and sanctified by the triune God and is destined for eternal communion with God after the resurrection. --Jeffrey Silcock, Emeritus, systematic theology, Australian Lutheran College / University of Divinity


More than ever we need a book like John Kleinig's Wonderfully Made. His rhapsody on the human body addresses today's confusion over our bodies and our sexuality. --Arthur A. Just Jr., Professor and chairman of exegetical theology, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN

emeritus professor of systematic theology, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis assistant professor, Baylor University and Founder of Mere Orthodoxy James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario, CA Associate professor of theology and church history, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne Emeritus, systematic theology, Australian Lutheran College / University of Divinity Professor and chairman of exegetical theology, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN


John W. Kleinig (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a retired lecturer at Australian Lutheran College and an ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church of Australia. He is author of numerous books, including
Grace upon Grace: Spirituality for Today and commentaries on Hebrews and Leviticus.

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Overview
Why do we have bodies?

When it comes to thinking about our bodies, confusion reigns. In our secular age, there has been a loss of the body's goodness, purpose, and end. Many people, driven by shame and idolatry, abuse their body through self-harm or self-improvement. How can we renew our understanding and see our bodies the way God does?

In Wonderfully Made, John Kleinig forms a properly biblical theology of our bodies. Through his keen sensitivity to Scripture's witness, Kleinig explains why bodies matter. While sin has corrupted our bodies and how we think of them, God's creation is still good. Thus, our bodies are good gifts. The Son took on a body to redeem our bodies. Kleinig addresses issues like shame, chastity, desire, gender dysphoria, and more, by integrating them into the biblical vision of creation.
Readers of Wonderfully Made will not only be equipped to engage in current issues; they will gain a robust theology of the body and better appreciation of God's very good creation.
ISBN: 1683594673
ISBN13: 9781683594673
Author: John W. Kleinig
Publisher: Lexham Press
Format: Hardcover
PublicationDate: 2021-04-14
Language: English
PageCount: 256
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.0 x 8.6 inches
Weight: 15.2 ounces
Why do we have bodies?

When it comes to thinking about our bodies, confusion reigns. In our secular age, there has been a loss of the body's goodness, purpose, and end. Many people, driven by shame and idolatry, abuse their body through self-harm or self-improvement. How can we renew our understanding and see our bodies the way God does?

In Wonderfully Made, John Kleinig forms a properly biblical theology of our bodies. Through his keen sensitivity to Scripture's witness, Kleinig explains why bodies matter. While sin has corrupted our bodies and how we think of them, God's creation is still good. Thus, our bodies are good gifts. The Son took on a body to redeem our bodies. Kleinig addresses issues like shame, chastity, desire, gender dysphoria, and more, by integrating them into the biblical vision of creation.
Readers of Wonderfully Made will not only be equipped to engage in current issues; they will gain a robust theology of the body and better appreciation of God's very good creation.
Editorial Reviews


This adventure in searching the Scriptures will enrich the reader's ability to enjoy God's giving us our corporality and to find in it rich grounds for thanksgiving and praise. --Robert Kolb, emeritus professor of systematic theology, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis


Wonderfully Made is a tremendous and accessible guide for Protestants who are beginning to turn (at last!) our attention toward what it means to live in the flesh that God gave us. --Matthew Lee Anderson, assistant professor, Baylor University and Founder of Mere Orthodoxy


Love of God and love of Christ, yes--but why love our bodies? This book places Christian teaching on sex and marriage into their true context in light of the creation, fall, and redemption of our bodies. Kleinig joyfully lifts up our bodies as God's gift, whose purpose is to foster self-giving love, building communion with each other and with God in Christ and his Spirit. With scriptural depth, and without minimizing the ugliness of sin and death, Kleinig shows us how our bodies belong to God's good news of salvation, love, and life. This book is an invitation not only to a more faithful practice of singleness or marriage, but also to a deeper sense of what it means to worship the incarnate Lord. --Matthew Levering, James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary


This book will surely take its place among the growing library of works that treat this fascinating subject. I cannot recommend it too highly! --Gregg R. Allison, professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary


When so much written about the body is polemical, political, or perverse, how good it is to read an author who is on the side of the angels, not the cynics. --Thomas M. Winger, President of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario, CA


Wonderfully Made provides a welcome and worthy complement to Catholic and Orthodox theologies of the body by John Paul II and Jean-Claude Larchet. [...] this book promises to become a standard go-to text on the agony and ecstasy of physical Christian existence for seminaries, teachers, pastors, parishes, and personal study. --Adam G. Cooper, Associate professor of theology and church history, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne


Written against the neo-gnostic spirituality of our day, with its focus on the mind at the expense of the body, Kleinig's engaging book is a powerful defence of the embodied spirituality of the Bible. Its deep exegetical and pastoral insights combine to make this a book that speaks to both the head and the heart. Written for a broad spectrum of readers from rank and file Christians to pastors and teachers of theology, the author shows that the body is indeed wonderfully made because it has been created, redeemed, and sanctified by the triune God and is destined for eternal communion with God after the resurrection. --Jeffrey Silcock, Emeritus, systematic theology, Australian Lutheran College / University of Divinity


More than ever we need a book like John Kleinig's Wonderfully Made. His rhapsody on the human body addresses today's confusion over our bodies and our sexuality. --Arthur A. Just Jr., Professor and chairman of exegetical theology, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN

emeritus professor of systematic theology, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis assistant professor, Baylor University and Founder of Mere Orthodoxy James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario, CA Associate professor of theology and church history, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne Emeritus, systematic theology, Australian Lutheran College / University of Divinity Professor and chairman of exegetical theology, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN


John W. Kleinig (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a retired lecturer at Australian Lutheran College and an ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church of Australia. He is author of numerous books, including
Grace upon Grace: Spirituality for Today and commentaries on Hebrews and Leviticus.

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  • Packages are shipped from Monday to Friday.
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Shipping method varies depending on what is being shipped.  

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Damaged Parcel
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  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
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