Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI am grateful to all those authors and thinkers through the centuries who have thought about the topics of goodness and transgression. A special thanks to those w^ho are developing a new, grace-based cosmology today including an appreciation of our holy bodies. I have tried to acknowledge all these thinkers by taking their thought seriously in this book and by recognizing their contributions in the text and in the footnotes. Hopefully, by presenting their research in the light of the history of spirituality, the spirit-dimension of their deep work will receive the attention it deserves.Also, I am grateful to my agent, Ned Leavitt, whose encouragement has never faltered, and to my editors at Harmony Books, Shaye Areheart and Leslie Meredith. Shaye's support in particular has been invaluable. A special thanks to the EugeneYee family, who lent me their summer home as a retreat in nature where I was able to study and write significant parts of this work. And to Julie Anglin for her illustrations. And to Mary Ford Grabowsky and Christian de la Huerta for their editorial suggestions.