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Engaging Jesus with Our Senses An Embodied Approach to the Gospels Jeannine Marie Hanger Foreword by Grant Macaskill
This book offers a fresh way to read the Gospels with an emphasis on embodiment, helping us to connect our sensory experiences with those of ancient readers. Jeannine Hanger points to the im- portance of engaging our physical senses in Bible reading, presents an approach to doing so with an emphasis on sparking the imag - ination, and looks at how utilizing our primary senses plays out in reading the Gospels. Each chapter includes sensory practices and questions for personal reflection. “It is not easy to write about texts and yet evoke all the bodily senses. But Hanger succeeds brilliantly where most would fail. In this vivid and engaging yet well-researched book, utilizing recent shifts in scholarship, she draws us into the rich sensory world of the Gospel narratives and encourages the use of all our senses in encountering the Word made flesh. An excellent resource for a fully embodied life of faith.” —JOHN M. G. BARCLAY, Durham University “Insightful. Intriguing. Invitational. Engaging Jesus with Our Senses is all this and more. Hanger explores the intersection of the Gospels and sensory experience, building on scholarship from both arenas. The results are both thought-provoking and experientially rich.” —JEANNINE K. BROWN, Bethel Seminary “In this lucid treatment of engaging the senses, the Gospel narra- tives form a literary bridge between sensory experience back then and experiential encounters with the subject of the texts—Jesus— in the here and now.” —PAUL N. ANDERSON, George Fox University; cofounder of the John, Jesus, and History Project “In this very insightful book, Hanger skillfully shows us how to appreciate the sensory aspects of the biblical world as perceived by the earliest believers. This is a wonderful work that brings to life the cultural world of the Bible and guides us to a deeper level of transformation.” —MICHELLE LEE-BARNEWALL, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University “An enjoyable and accessible introduction to the sensory qualities of the New Testament writings. I hope that all who read it will find themselves thinking in fresh ways about what it means to partic- ipate in God and the world.” —GRANT MACASKILL, University of Aberdeen (from the foreword)
AUGUST 2024 • 208 pp. • paper • $24.99 • 9781540966728
Jeannine Marie Hanger (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is associate professor of New Testament at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and the author of Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John . Her research interests revolve around the Gospels, specif - ically literary approaches to texts alongside their ancient-world contexts.
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