A Biblical Rationale for Embodied Spiritual Practices

Why should biblical counselors be concerned with the body? To answer this question, Emlet traces the role of bodily practices from creation to consummation and offers implications for our lives and for counseling. “To be ‘spiritual,’” he says, “is not some otherworldly, disembodied experience of God, but a real flesh-and-blood existence lived in concrete ways of obedience before him.”