Unclean: meditations on purity, hospitality, and mortality
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and c...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Eugene, Oregon
Cascade Books
©2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Purity (Ethics)
B Hospitality Religious aspects Christianity B Pureté rituelle - Enseignement biblique B Purity, Ritual - Biblical teaching B Hospitality - Religious aspects - Christianity B Aversion B Purity, Ritual Biblical teaching B Pureté (Morale) B Christian Ethics |
| Summary: | "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. At every turn, it seems that the psychological pull of purity and holiness tempts the church into practices of social exclusion and a Gnostic "flight" from the world into a "too spiritual" spirituality. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) |
| Physical Description: | x, 201 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-60899-242-X 978-1-60899-242-3 |
