Embodied faith

Incarnation and wholeness

Abstract

We are all embodied beings, both sacred and fragile. Our bodies are integral to the functioning of our minds and the wellbeing of our spirit, and each of us is connected in a rich web to the rest of the created world and one another. In addition to this, we worship an embodied God. The incarnation of God in Jesus is at the center of Christian faith, but modern Protestant churches often treat the body as suspect and a place of sin. The people who lived in the time of Jesus inhabited a different cultural landscape where the body and soul were reflections of one another and intimately connected.