Holiness Past and Present

Edited by

Stephen C. Barton

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First published 2003

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To Ann Loades

Professor of Divinity

respected colleague

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Stephen C. Barton

Part 1 Holiness in Theory

1 What is Holiness?

John Rogerson

2 Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy Revisited

Colin Crowder

3 The Sociology of Holiness: The Power of Being Good

Douglas J. Davies

4 Changing your Holy Ground: An Ecology of Sacred and Secular in Cities of the Centre and the Periphery

David Martin

Part 2 Holiness and Scripture

5 Holiness in the Priestly Writings of the Old Testament

Philip Jenson

6 ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’: Isaiah’s Vision of God

R. W. L. Moberly

7 The Sanctification of Time in the Second Temple Period: Case Studies in the Septuagint and Jubilees

Robert Hayward

8 Jesus and Holiness: The Challenge of Purity

James D. G. Dunn

9 Dislocating and Relocating Holiness: A New Testament Study

Stephen C. Barton

Part 3 Holiness and Christian Tradition

10 Holiness and the Vision of God in the Eastern Fathers

Andrew Louth

11 Finding a via media: The Moderation of Holiness in Fourth-century Western Asceticism

Carol Harrison

12 Benedictine Holiness

Henry Mayr-Harting

13 Holiness in the English Tradition: From Prayer Book to Puritans

Gordon Mursell

14 Holiness in the Evangelical Tradition

D. W. Bebbington

15 Holiness in the Roman Catholic Tradition

Sheridan Gilley

16 Mother of God, Mother of Holiness: A Meditation from Orthodoxy

Vigen Guroian

Part 4 Holiness and Contemporary Issues

17 Bonhoeffer, Holiness and Ethics

David F. Ford

18 Holiness in extremis: Jewish Women’s Resistance to the Profane in Auschwitz

Melissa Raphael

19 Holiness Ungendered

Susan F. Parsons

20 The Communion of Saints and Other Religions: On Saintly Wives in Hinduism and Catholicism

Gavin D’Costa

21 Material Poverty or Poverty of Spirit? Holiness and the Liberation of the Poor

Denys Turner

22 Whose Sanctity of Life? Ricoeur, Dworkin and the Human Embryo

Robert Song

23 Worship and the Formation of a Holy People

Daniel W. Hardy

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index of Modern Authors