Description: Into a Spacious Place explores how human life becomes narrowed, de-resourced and distorted, and how God brings people into a wider and truer way of living. It understands oppression not only as an external social or political reality, though it includes those things, but also as something that can settle into the body, memory, imagination, conscience, relationships, habits and worship.
The book considers how fear, shame, coercion, trauma, accusation, false refuge and spiritual distortion can make life smaller, even when a person remains outwardly capable, functional or admired. Against this narrowing, the book sets the biblical image of spaciousness: God bringing His people into a broad place. Oppression narrows. God makes room.
Liberation is not presented as self-rule, emotional relief or escape from responsibility. It is the grace-enabled re-ordering of embodied, relational and morally responsible life under the Father, through union with the Son, by the Holy Spirit. Its hope is not merely survival, but the recovery of room: room for truth, lament, repentance, rest, courage, love, worship and hope.
Author(s) name(s): Daniel Bowen (goodreads.com/danielbowenphd)
ISBN (or ASIN): 978-1-923770-07-2
Publisher: Bowen Publishing
Publication Date Year: 2026
Publication Date Month: March
Publication Date Day: 29
Page count: 31
Format: eBook
Description:
Into a Spacious Place explores how human life becomes narrowed, de-resourced and distorted, and how God brings people into a wider and truer way of living. It understands oppression not only as an external social or political reality, though it includes those things, but also as something that can settle into the body, memory, imagination, conscience, relationships, habits and worship.
The book considers how fear, shame, coercion, trauma, accusation, false refuge and spiritual distortion can make life smaller, even when a person remains outwardly capable, functional or admired. Against this narrowing, the book sets the biblical image of spaciousness: God bringing His people into a broad place. Oppression narrows. God makes room.
Liberation is not presented as self-rule, emotional relief or escape from responsibility. It is the grace-enabled re-ordering of embodied, relational and morally responsible life under the Father, through union with the Son, by the Holy Spirit. Its hope is not merely survival, but the recovery of room: room for truth, lament, repentance, rest, courage, love, worship and hope.
Language: English
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