Holiness : past and present / edited by Stephen C. Barton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, Stephen C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holiness.

Perfection--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Perfection.

Holiness--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, a Continuum imprint, 2003.

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

Contents:

What is holiness? / John Rogerson

Rudolf Otto's The idea of the holy revisited / Colin Crowder

The sociology of holiness: the power of being good / Douglas J. Davies

Changing your holy ground: an ecology of sacred and secular in cities of the centre and the periphery / David Martin

Holiness in the priestly writings of the Old Testament / Philip Jenson

'Holy, holy, holy': Isaiah's vision of God / R.W.L. Moberly

The sanctification of time in the second temple period: case studies in the Septuagint and Jubilees / Robert Hayward

Jesus and holiness: the challenge of purity / James D.G. Dunn

Dislocating and relocating holiness: a New Testament study / Stephen C. Barton

Holiness and the vision of God in the eastern fathers / Andrew Louth

Finding a via media: the moderation of holiness in fourth-century western asceticism / Carol Harrison

Benedictine holiness / Henry Mayr-Harting

Holiness in the English tradition: from prayer book to Puritans / Gordon Mursell

Holiness in the evangelical tradition / D.W. Bebbington

Holiness in the Roman Catholic tradition / Sheridan Gilley

Mother of God, mother of holiness: a meditation from Orthodoxy / Vigen Guroian

Bonhoeffer, holiness and ethics / David F. Ford

Holiness in extremis: Jewish women's resistance to the profane in Auschwitz / Melissa Raphael

Holiness ungendered / Susan F. Parsons

The communion of saints and other religions: on saintly wives in Hinduism and Catholicism / Gavin D'Costa

Material poverty or poverty of spirit? Holiness and the liberation of the poor / Denys Turner

Whose sanctity of life? Ricoeur, Dworkin and the human embryo / Robert Song

Worship and the formation of a holy people / Daniel W. Hardy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-506) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780567545404

0567545407

OCLC:

893331115