Fit for What?: Exercise, the Body, and Fitness Culture in Christian Perspective

In Fit for What?, Andrew Borror offers a cultural exegesis of modern fitness culture, seeking to answer the questions: What story does fitness culture tell about the body? What vision of the good life does it assume? And how might the person of Christ, who neither lived a sedentary life nor trained in a modern gym, reshape the way we think about exercise, health, and embodiment?

In a culture saturated with self-optimization, body image pressure, and performance-driven fitness ideals, many be...