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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...

mythical cycles, grounds the unity of history in the unity of space and time, marks the fundamental difference between the mythological and the biblical-theological understanding of the holiness of God.4 I shall return at the end of this essay to the comments about what the whole Old Testament says about God’s holiness. For the moment I intend to point out that the claim that ‘all religions’ know the holiness of God in his radical difference and in the way that he conceals each life in his own is
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