Love's Mysteries reflects powerfully on our fundamental limitations as creatures of flesh and bone, and what our experiences of grief, loss, and fragility tell us about God. Rachel Mann explores what happens when our bodies are under pressure, suggesting that the precariousness of life might be where we most authentically encounter God.

Rachel Mann

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Introduction

1. Who is Worthy of Grief?

2. The Glory and Decay of a Dying Body

3. A Study in the Punctured Body

4. To Risk the Womb with Gladness

5. The Gift and Wound of Relationship

6. God in the Company of the Kindly Ones

7. God in a World of Cruel Optimisms

8. The Precarious Word

9. How the Grotesque Speaks to the Precarious Body

10. The Precariousness of It All (or, The Odd God of Oxgodby)

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• A timely and original book from one of the most distinctive religious voices of our day. • A mix of theological reflection and lyrical storytelling, this addresses questions uppermost in personal and life. • It explores the universal experience of loss and grief as a means to understanding more deeply our own lives and our relationships with others and with God.

Love's Mysteries reflects powerfully on our fundamental limitations as creatures of flesh and bone, and what our experiences of grief, loss and fragility tell us about God and his astonishing choice to inhabit human flesh. Rachel Mann explores what happens when our bodies are under pressure, living under conditions of trauma, violence, pain or distress, suggesting that the precariousness of life might be where we most authentically encounter God. Her argument combines theological reflection with stories of communal and personal loss, from large-scale events such as terrorist attacks and the coronavirus pandemic to personal accounts of accompanying a dying person. Throughout, she explores how the universal experience of fragility and grief can help us understand our own lives and our relationships with God and with others.

'A stunning volume from one of the ascendant stars of Anglican theology. Rachel Mann opens our eyes and our hearts to the incarnate Christ who is one with us, both in our physicality and in that precariousness of human life which Covid19 has brought newly back into focus. Drawing on her own experiences of sickness and transformation, she applies her poet's grasp of words to offer her readers a spirituality at the same time challenging, compelling and ultimately comforting.'

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