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Naked Before God
Recovering what the human body was always meant to teach us about God
The church said the body was a problem. The culture said it was ours to spend. Both of them left us without language for what it actually is.
About the book
Christians have inherited two broken stories about the body. The first says the body is dangerous — cover it, suppress it, distrust it, treat desire as an enemy. The second says the body is yours — do what you want with it, call it freedom, call it love. Both stories leave us without language for what the body actually is: a sign, inscribed by God, pointing toward something far greater than either purity culture or the sexual revolution can see.
This book works through the biblical narrative from Eden to Revelation, drawing on John Paul II’s Theology of the Body as a companion — not as Catholic catechism, but as one of the most serious attempts in modern Christian thought to take the body on its own terms. It’s accessible on purpose. It’s written by a layperson, for laypeople, in the belief that this conversation belongs to the whole church and not only to the academics.
This book is for the person who grew up hearing that their body was a problem. It’s for the parent who wants to give their teenager a better story than the one they were handed. It’s for the purity-culture survivor who didn’t want to abandon the faith along with the shame, and for the person who did — and is still looking for something solid to stand on.
You don’t need a degree in theology. You need honesty, and you need to know you’re not alone.
What’s inside
- 1 Door to the Unknown God knelt in the dirt and shaped a body with His own hands — then breathed into it, mouth to mouth. Where the body came from, and why that changes everything that follows.
- 2 Sacred Ground & Fig Leaves The hiding begins, and God responds by killing an animal in front of two people who’d never seen death. Why shame showed up, and where it actually came from — because it didn’t come from God.
- 3 Divine Coverings God never stays abstract. He kills, He washes, He clothes, He carves garments down to the thread. Why He keeps translating eternal things into things you can touch — and what that says about the body.
- 4 Washed and Unashamed If the body is God’s language, then everything we do with it either tells the truth about Him or tells a lie. The weight most of us have never considered — and the counterfeit that reveals the worth of the original.
- 5 Nakedness as a Sign When the prophets stripped, God was speaking. The times He reached for the naked body as His chosen language — never about shame, always about revelation.
- 6 Uncovered How did we get this weird about it? The trail back through history to the people of the Bible, who related to the body in ways that don’t fit what we’ve been told “biblical modesty” means.
- 7 Clothed in Glory Six chapters tore the lie down. This one builds. Not shame, and not the body-freedom our culture sells either — but the thing underneath both, that most of us have sensed and never had the language for.
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