Rethinking Holiness

Download or read book Rethinking Holiness written by Bernie A. Van De Walle and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and exclusively a divine property. The book highlights the Bible's necessary and corrective role in defining holiness and shows how individual holiness is grounded in the community that is the church catholic.