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SACRED SENSES: How God Reaches Us Through the Body
Raymond Newman, PhD
A small child reaches out and touches the face of the Christ Child in a Christmas crèche. She does not know theology. She cannot explain the Incarnation. Yet somehow she understands something that Christians have spent two thousand years trying to express: God came close enough to touch.
Modern people often think of spirituality as something purely internal—a private world of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. But Christianity begins with a startling claim: "The Word became flesh." God did not save humanity from a distance. He entered the world of bodies, senses, matter, beauty, and ordinary human experience.
In Sacred Senses, Raymond Newman, PhD invites readers on a deeply Catholic journey into the forgotten truth that the body is not a distraction from the spiritual life; it is one of the primary ways God reaches us.
Drawing from Scripture, Church history, theology, and the rich sacramental tradition of Catholicism, this book explores:
- Why the Incarnation changes everything
- The Catholic understanding of the body and the senses
- The sacramental worldview hidden within ordinary life
- The spiritual significance of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste
- Incense, holy water, sacred music, icons, beauty, and ritual
- The relationship between matter and grace
- How the body itself becomes an instrument of prayer
- Recovering wonder in an age of distraction
With the warmth of spiritual reflection and the depth of serious theological thought, Sacred Senses invites readers to rediscover Christianity as something not merely believed, but experienced.
This is not simply a book about Catholic practices. It is a book about learning to see the world differently: to recognize that grace often comes quietly—through candlelight, through music, through bread and wine, through the smell of incense lingering in the air, through kneeling, touching, tasting, and listening.
Because God did not come merely to speak to our minds.
He came to reach our whole humanity.
Come and rediscover the God who became reachable.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. SACRED SENSES: How God Reaches Us Through the BodyRaymond Newman, PhDA small child reaches out and touches the face of the Christ Child in a Christmas creche. She does not know theology. She cannot explain the Incarnation. Yet somehow she understands something that Christians have spent two thousand years trying to express: God came close enough to touch.Modern people often think of spirituality as something purely internal-a private world of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. But Christianity begins with a startling claim: "The Word became flesh." God did not save humanity from a distance. He entered the world of bodies, senses, matter, beauty, and ordinary human experience.In Sacred Senses, Raymond Newman, PhD invites readers on a deeply Catholic journey into the forgotten truth that the body is not a distraction from the spiritual life; it is one of the primary ways God reaches us.Drawing from Scripture, Church history, theology, and the rich sacramental tradition of Catholicism, this book explores: Why the Incarnation changes everythingThe Catholic understanding of the body and the sensesThe sacramental worldview hidden within ordinary lifeThe spiritual significance of sight, sound, touch, smell, and tasteIncense, holy water, sacred music, icons, beauty, and ritualThe relationship between matter and graceHow the body itself becomes an instrument of prayerRecovering wonder in an age of distractionWith the warmth of spiritual reflection and the depth of serious theological thought, Sacred Senses invites readers to rediscover Christianity as something not merely believed, but experienced.This is not simply a book about Catholic practices. It is a book about learning to see the world differently: to recognize that grace often comes quietly-through candlelight, through music, through bread and wine, through the smell of incense lingering in the air, through kneeling, touching, tasting, and listening.Because God did not come merely to speak to our minds.He came to reach our whole humanity.Come and rediscover the God who became reachable. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798180740366
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