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Purity: Essays in Bible and Theology

Purity: Essays in Bible and Theology

Latz, Andrew Brower
Ermakov, Arseny

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Religion General Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0227176626
ISBN13: 9780227176627
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Published: Aug 31 2017
Pages: 295
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A collection of essays exploring the concept of purity in the Old and New Testaments and in the theological traditions of the Christian churches.

In ancient societies and religion, the concept of purity was of central importance; in many modern societies it is either irrelevant or, when it is used, attached to extremely conservative agendas. This suggests an interesting story to be told within the history of ideas and, at the same time, raises questions about the place, meaning, and use of purity in religious traditions. What does purity mean in different scriptural contexts? Is it synonymous with holiness or different? How has it been used within various strands of theology? What should we make of it today? Have we moderns, by discarding purity as an organising social form, lost something essential or have we made a significant moral advance? Or both? This volume addresses these questions in essays on biblical genres, books and different theological traditions. Accessibly written and incisive in its scholarship, Purity will be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists alike.

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