What Your Body Knows about God : How We Are Designed to Connect, Serve, and Thrive

“Every day it seems we read about new scientific studies that reveal fascinating insights into the operation of the human mind and body. But as Christians we sometimes wonder whether these studies challenge our assumptions from the Bible. Will they attempt to explain away the power of prayer? The possibility of spiritual transformation? The need for intimate human community? My friend Rob Moll has helped us by pulling together the latest research and showing how it fits with Christian teaching on how we grow in love of God and each other. I hope you learn as much as I did about God’s wonderful plan of creation.” Collin Hansen, editorial director of the Gospel Coalition and author of Young, Restless, Reformed

“Rob Moll uses the best in neuroscience to illuminate what biblical scholars have been telling us about God’s purpose for embodied existence. We are not alien souls locked in inhospitable bodies, but we were made to be spiritual through our flesh and bone. This is an important book for couples who care about each other’s bodies to read together.” David Neff, former editor in chief, Christianity Today

“Marshaling cutting-edge neuroscience, theological acumen, and deft storytelling, this book of Rob Moll’s invites us to honor the way the Creator God formed us in the imago Dei: as integrated wholes—body, mind, and spirit all one. We have much to learn from Moll’s work—may it lead many into deeper awe and wonder at the great goodness of the incarnate God and the flourishing life we are invited into.” Michael Yankoski, author of The Sacred Year

“Rob Moll must have paid better attention in science class than most of us did. The result is a book I literally could not stop referencing in my preaching. Science is seeing what faith has long known—that discipleship can make us more sane, healthy, human.” Jason Byassee, senior pastor, Boone United Methodist Church, North Carolina; fellow in theology and leadership, Duke Divinity School; and author of Discerning the Body

“For years one Christian leader after another has contended that redemption is holistic—not just the soul but also the body, not just me but us, not just my spirituality but also my sexuality. These contentions have now been backed up by solid research at the level of neurochemicals and how our bodies work. What Your Body Knows about God is a godsend book for a day that both needs and requires a deeper perception of holistic redemption. God, in effect, has wired us to love God, to love ourselves, and to love others—and this book explains how God did the wiring. Bravo!” Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

“One of the most mysterious yet inspirational statements in Scripture is that we are created in the image of God. There’s a purpose behind human existence, and it involves every one of us and all aspects of us. Somehow it connects us with God. If that’s true, then we’d expect there to be evidence that we are made in a way that can reflect the very capacities of God—to love, to create, etc. Rob Moll has done a great service by gathering that evidence in one place. What Your Body Knows about God is a marvelous testimony to how science and Scripture are complementary rather than contradictory.” John Kilner, Forman Chair of Christian Ethics and Theology, Trinity International University