God and Grace of Body

• Restores the body - beautiful and sexy - to its place in Christian experience
• Deploys an enormous range of cultural reference - from African priest-poets to Poulenc and Messiaen to Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain
• Like Brown's previous volumes, this book widens horizons and challenge much current theological thinking

Readership: Those interested in theology and culture, in music and religion; sociologists, cultural historians.

David Brown, Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture and Wardlaw Professor, University of St Andrews

"Brown has made a bold claim and given us a well-argued and finely-crafted argument to consider. His method includes a generous amount of valuable insights into art works of various media. in this he has greatly advanced the field of theological aesthetics." - Alejandro Garcia-Rivera. Modern Theology.

"Brown takes the reader on an impressive and often detailed journey through classical and contemporary religious and culutural manifestations of the sacred and the divine." - Werner G. Jeanrond, Scottish Journal of Theology

Introduction
I. Finding God in Bodies
1: Beautiful and Sexy
2: The Dancer's Leap
3: Food and Drink
4: Ugly and Wasted
II. Ethereal and Material
5: Classical Music
6: Pop Music
7: Blues, Musicals, and Opera
III. The Eucharistic Body
8: Healing and Presence
9: The Liturgical Imperative