technical theological treatise, I have written in a style that I trust will be more accessible to students, pastors, and the interested person in the pew. (Those who desire to dig deeper into this topic can consult my endnotes, which include the majority of my interaction with secondary literature.) My broader goal for the book is to aid the seeming renaissance of interest in holiness both inside and beyond the walls of the church. To that end, I begin the book by identifying signs that indicate
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