New PDF release: Embodied Faith: Reflections on a Materialist Spirituality:

The materialist spirituality in Embodied religion is biblically grounded, and it smells of earth whilst it deals a style of heaven. Taking an commentary of St. Benedict as his place to begin, Ola Tjørhom continues that outward varieties are absolutely in a position to incorporating and expressing internal religious substance. / Tjørhom strikes directly to determine 3 an important positive aspects of a materialist spirituality. First, it has a concrete substance — essentially the sacraments and the sacramental measurement of our Christian lifestyles in its totality. moment, materialist spirituality can't be lived out in a vacuum, yet calls for concrete areas — more often than not the church and the area, which, notwithstanding separate, are essentially interconnected. 3rd, this spirituality is grounded now not in ethereal rules and ideas yet in simple empirical belief — in issues we will be able to see and listen to, scent and style — making it a spirituality eminently fitted to our day-by-day lives and the area. / “Ola Tjørhom has written a sensible e-book that bridges many gaps: among the fabric and the non secular, the Catholic and the Protestant, the paranormal and the typical. His imaginative and prescient of a materialist spirituality isn't a decision to go away this international nor a call for participation to severe stories, yet a sober inspiration for a Christian existence that's in yet no longer of the realm. Firmly rooted in construction, this type of spirituality nonetheless yearns for the transformation of all issues. Few books are as ecumenical as Tjørhom’s, drawing on various Christian traditions in a fashion that respects every one. Persuasively awarded, his wide-ranging reflections conceal the sort of variety of themes, one is tempted to name it a ‘systematics of spirituality.’ ”— Michael Root / Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary