Spg: God Through the Senses

Catalog description

This group will explore the practice of knowing God through the bodily senses -- sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. Christianity is a religion of incarnation, God enfleshed in matter and energy; God is within (as well as beyond) us and the rest of creation. Spiritual practices are to help us perceive this God, grow in intimacy with this God and one another, and live according to the Spirit of this God. The bodily senses are one pathway for doing so. In knowing God through the senses, we also will explore the faith claim that God created us in part so that life, love, and joy could be experienced and that one tremendous gift for experiencing them is the bodily senses. Required for MDiv, MTS, MCM degree, and CATS students. [5 max enrollment per section]