What Your Body Knows about God

Critics Review

• “Got a body? Wanna love God? Then this is your book,
  which means it is my book and everyone’s book. Here is the terrific news Rob
  Moll gathers and delivers from the smartest sources: not just that we have
  bodies, but we are bodies, and we’ve been marvelously wired and equipped to
  love God and serve our neighbor with and through these wondrous creations. Who
  does not need to hear this—our bodies are not a curse but a gift. Thank you, Mr.
  Moll.”

  Leslie Leyland Fields, author and contributing editor, Christianity Today

• “In What Your
  Body Knows about God, Rob Moll has successfully brought together research,
  personal experience, and biblical analysis to show how our bodies were made to engage
  with the Almighty God. You will be hard-pressed to find another book with such
  high-level research, while remaining a high-quality read. Pastors, parishioners,
  and nonbelievers will all benefit from this foundational work in understanding
  the intersection between humanity and divinity.”

  Tyler Braun, pastor, author of Why Holiness Matters

• “This book goes behind the genetic curtain to show the
  intricate and exceptional design within our bodies to provide a groundbreaking
  point—we’re not only called to worship but beautifully wired to do so.”

  Brian Orme, editor, Outreach magazine

• “Human biology may have lulled me to sleep in college,
  but What Your Body Knows about God
  kept me riveted and up way too late as Moll explores the fascinating
  connections between our physical and spiritual, the material and the mystical.
  A must read!”

  Caryn Rivadeneira, author of Broke; cohost and producer, Midday Connection, Moody Radio

• “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

• “In Rob Moll’s second book, he brings his considerable
  skill, insight, and winsome curiosity to bear on the connection between the
  body, the brain, and spiritual practice. This latest effort will encourage a
  new level of interest among Christians in the relationship between the flesh
  and the spirit. I warmly recommend it to readers.”

  Hunter Baker, dean of instruction, Union University, author of The End of Secularism