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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...

God, the Holy One. Methodist theologian Thomas Oden sums up this idea concisely: “The church is holy because her Lord is holy.”3 Likewise, Presbyterian theologian Edmund Clowney writes: “Because they belong to the separated One, his people are separate.”4 The source of the church’s holiness is ever and always “because she belongs to the Triune God.”5 Scripture uses numerous metaphors to describe the church, yet almost without exception they denote the essential place that the church’s relation to
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