What does it mean to engage Jesus with all of our five senses?

What is an embodied approach to study in the life of Jesus

as opposed to the way we normally read the gospel accounts?

And how could this change the way we encounter Jesus in the Gospels?

We'll discuss these questions and more with our guests, our Talba colleague, Janine Hanger,

with their new book, Engaging Jesus with Our Senses.

I'm your host, Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell.

This is Think Biblically from Talba School of Theology at Biola University.

Janine, welcome.

I'm really glad to have you with us, and we loved your book. It's just got a lot of good things in it that frankly I hadn't thought about much before.

I've been reading the Gospels for 50 years.

And this brought out some really helpful things that I think will help me read the Gospels in more depth.

So welcome.

Great to have you with us.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

So tell us, first of all, what inspired you to write a book like this that I think is, I just don't see much like this

out there. It seems like you've got a nice little niche that you're filling here. So what,

what urged you to get involved in this particular area of study in the Gospels? Yeah, it all

stemmed actually from my doctoral studies in Gospel of John, and I was actually

searching around for a dissertation topic, and the thing that I'm most captivated by is this

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