Dan Handschy

Dazzling Bodies

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“I have been waiting for a book like this for the nearly three decades I have been in parish ministry. All the usual books on congregational dynamics seem to separate the 'fine grained' realities of parish life from any sustained theological reflection, as if our experience of God were mediated to us in some other way than our common life. Valantasis's deep familiarity with ascetical theology and the scheme of the three bodies derived from his years of study and ministry provides a profoundly theological way of reflecting on the richness of congregational life and worship. He shows us how to see the divine brilliance of all our bodies.”