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Holiness is experiencing a renaissance both within and beyond the church today. Based on years of conversations with students, this approachable theological introduction to the Christian doctrine of holiness challenges the commonly held idea that holiness is primarily a moral category. The author explains that holiness is grounded not in ethics but in the basic nature of God; it is essentially...

it apart for his purposes. In this sense, something is sanctified at the moment it comes into relation with him. While this is truly a kind of holiness, it is just the beginning and not the end of the process. The term “sanctification” also has a progressive use. When the term is used in this way, it refers to God’s work of making those things that are in relation with him suited for that new and special relation. When used in this way, sanctification refers to God’s work of bringing the nature and
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