Five Books on the Body for Evangelicals

June 15th, 2011 | 3 min read

One of the joys of writing a book for me was having the opportunity to do some cartography of the terrain between evangelicals and the physical body.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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Five Books on the Body for Evangelicals

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