Engaging Jesus with Our SensesJesus took on flesh he was embodied. And the Gospels use multisensory language to reveal that his teaching, ministry, and interactions with people engaged the senses. Consider the raging storm on the Sea of Galilee, the perfume filling the house as Mary anointed Jesus's feet, the significance of touch as Jesus healed people. Jesus even described himself in sensory terms as the bread of life, the light of the world, the vine to whom his disciples are
This work marked a turning point in Webster's theological development and is his most substantial statement on the task of theology
and teach us to pray so that we might flourish in Christ
Two thousand years later
yet the church grew--not by specific strategies but by patient ferment
but the tenses are nonsequential
church and ministry leaders
Terence Fretheim offers fresh readings of familiar Old Testament passages--such as creation
and literary commentary on the Sermon and explains how this text offers insight into God's plan for human flourishing
" which provides a practical application or reflection on the text
Briggs explores the reception of Psalm 23 down through the ages
and discussion--and demonstrate how such practices can be more effectively and intentionally harnessed to result in deep reading
and partisan politics--stem from a crisis of the imagination
