Purity: Essays in Bible and Theology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0227176626 ISBN 13: 9780227176627

Publisher: James Clarke, 2017

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Andrew Brower Latz is a visiting lecturer at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. Arseny Ermakov is Head of Biblical Studies at Booth College, Sydney.

Edition details

• Publisher: James Clarke
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0227176626
• ISBN 13: 9780227176627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295
• Editor: Latz Andrew Brower, Ermakov Arseny