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1 online resource (530 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Holiness in Theory; 1 What is Holiness?; 2 Rudolf Otto''s The Idea of the Holy Revisited; 3 The Sociology of Holiness: The Power of Being Good; 4 Changing your Holy Ground: An Ecology of Sacred and Secular in Cities of the Centre and the Periphery; Part 2 Holiness and Scripture; 5 Holiness in the Priestly Writings of the Old Testament; 6 ''Holy, Holy, Holy'': Isaiah''s Vision of God; 7 The Sanctification of Time in the Second Temple Period: Case Studies in the Septuagint and Jubilees. |
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8 Jesus and Holiness: The Challenge of Purity9 Dislocating and Relocating Holiness: A New Testament Study; Part 3 Holiness and Christian Tradition; 10 Holiness and the Vision of God in the Eastern Fathers; 11 Finding a via media: The Moderation of Holiness in Fourth-century Western Asceticism; 12 Benedictine Holiness; 13 Holiness in the English Tradition: From Prayer Book to Puritans; 14 Holiness in the Evangelical Tradition; 15 Holiness in the Roman Catholic Tradition; 16 Mother of God, Mother of Holiness: A Meditation from Orthodoxy; Part 4 Holiness and Contemporary Issues. |
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17 Bonhoeffer, Holiness and Ethics18 Holiness in extremis: Jewish Women''s Resistance to the Profane in Auschwitz; 19 Holiness Ungendered; 20 The Communion of Saints and Other Religions: On Saintly Wives in Hinduism and Catholicism; 21 Material Poverty or Poverty of Spirit? Holiness and the Liberation of the Poor; 22 Whose Sanctity of Life? Ricoeur, Dworkin and the Human Embryo; 23 Worship and the Formation of a Holy People; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
| Summary |
Stephen Barton has commissioned social scientists, philosophers of religion, feminists, biblical scholars, historians, moral theologians and systematic theologians - international experts from a wide range of theological and related disciplines - to reflect on ""holiness.""The book is divided into four parts: the idea of holiness, holiness and scripture, holiness and Christian tradition, and holiness and contemporary issues. The contributions are inter-denominational and inter-religious. There is nothing comparable on ""holiness"" available at present, so this collection fills a significant ga. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-506) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Holiness.
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Holiness. |
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Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Holiness -- Christianity.
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Holiness -- Christianity. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barton, Stephen. Holiness : Past and Present. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2003 9780567088239 |
| ISBN |
9780567545404 (electronic book) |
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0567545407 (electronic book) |
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0567088936 |
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9780567088932 |
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0567088235 (paperback) |
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9780567088239 (paperback) |
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