doi: https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.34679 Body and Religion bar (print) issn 2057–5823 bar (online) issn 2057–5831 bar vol 1.2 2018 218–221 ©2018, equinox publishing Review Theology in the Flesh: How Embodiment and Culture Shape the Way We Think about Truth, Morality and God By J. Sanders (2015) Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 293pp. Reviewed by Kevin Schilbrack Keywords embodiment; Christian theology; cognitive linguistics; conceptual metaphor; image schemas; realism In 1999, cognitive linguists George Lakof and Mark Johnson published Philosophy in the Flesh, the book that inspires John Sanders’ new title. Lakof and Johnson argue that from the time one is born, human beings have bodily experiences of their environments that involve repeated pat- terns. When one is held, for example, one feels warmth. When one moves towards an object, one traverses space and gets closer to it. When one flls a container, the height of the contents gets higher. From these experiences, one develops distinct prerefective templates of understanding and rea- soning that Lakof and Johnson call image schemas, schemas with labels such as ‘source-path-goal’, ‘centre-periphery’ or ‘more is up’. And drawing on these schemas, speakers build conceptual metaphors such as a friendly person is ‘warm’, a relationship is a ‘journey’, and as something increases, it ‘rises’. Metaphors like these shape just about everything one can say about abstract realities like time or life or, as Sanders points out, truth, morality and God. In short, then, cognitive linguistics ofers a powerful argument that we should stop saying that thinking is something accomplished by the mind as opposed to the body. Afliation Appalachian State University, USA. email: schilbrackke@appstate.edu