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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Main Author: Beck, Richard Allan 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Eugene, Oregon Cascade Books ©2011
In:Year: 2011
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Girard, René 1923-2015
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