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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : T & T Clark, a Continuum imprint, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (530 p.)
• Disciplina: 291.22
• Soggetto topico: Holiness; Perfection - Religious aspects - Christianity; Holiness - Christianity
• Persona (resp. second.): BartonStephen C.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-506) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Holiness
• ISBN: 0-567-54540-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786916903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II