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The holy has been defined existentially and sociologically, and churches too often allow their expectations regarding holiness to be prompted by existential aspirations or the social mores of the Christian community. Perhaps it is not surprising that many view holiness as accidental or expendable, even as a legalistic and conformist posture opposed to the freedom of the gospel. But sanctification...

literature that has emerged in those areas focuses upon matters of communal and political formation, psychological and therapeutic development, and missional and evangelistic callings. Thankfully such intellectual excursions do not always happen apart from any prompting and directing by biblical and specifically christological material. When the literature turns christological, it presses into the shape of the incarnational ministry of the Son: his life, teaching, and passion. When ethical material
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