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Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

Beck, Richard

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0718892569
ISBN13: 9780718892562
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Feb 23 2014
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A combination of psychology and theology exploring the tensions between the exclusivity of a holiness based on notions of purity and the inclusivity of mercy.

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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