Wearing Well

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"Clothing is all around us, not only literally in what we are wearing, but also symbolically in language and metaphor. What we wear says something about our cultural, social or religious state. Does what you wear affect the way you believe? Does it matter what you wear to church? And what might Paul's phrase 'put on Christ' mean? This book will help individuals and groups to engage with how they relate to what they wear. It looks at the use of clothing language, metaphor and image in our everyday and Christian lives. It then considers how these themes are explored in the biblical narrative, before offering suggestions for what this means for us today, as we think about and use something we see and put on every day"--Page 4 of cover