Daily Archives: November 24, 2009

Holistic Theology/Spirituality

Martin Thorton speaks of the English tradition as a balance of affective and speculative elements.  I wonder if it’s worth going a step further and adding in the kinetic dimension. In reductionistic terms, then, it’d be theology and spirituality that balances and integrates heart, head, and body. The pay-off is that we recognize the bodily dimensions—kneeling, fasting/feasting, crossings, etc. as just as much a part of our theology and spirituality as what we think and feel.