RT Book
T1 Unclean: meditations on purity, hospitality, and mortality
A1 Beck, Richard Allan 1967-
LA English
PP Eugene, Oregon
PB Cascade Books
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1925282082
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201)
CN BJ1533.P97
SN 1-60899-242-X
SN 978-1-60899-242-3
K1 Aversion
K1 Purity (Ethics)
K1 Purity, Ritual : Biblical teaching
K1 Hospitality : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Christian Ethics
K1 Pureté (Morale)
K1 Pureté rituelle - Enseignement biblique
K1 Hospitality - Religious aspects - Christianity
K1 Purity, Ritual - Biblical teaching