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Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

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 | #201842 in Books |  2011-03-04 |  2011-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.53 x6.00l,.66 | File type: PDF | 212 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Is Unclean the New Pure?|By Paul L Hill|Christians typically assume that purity, regardless of its expression, is always preferred. Whether sexual morality, hygiene or social interaction the default stance of many within the church is purified separateness. Beck confronts this by evaluating the words Jesus borrows from Hosea, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice." For Beck, purit|About the Author|Richard Beck is Professor of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. This is his first book but he has published extensively in the empirical literature concerning the intersection of Christian faith and psychology.

"I desire mercy, not sacrifice" Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. At every turn, it seems that the psychological pull of purity and holiness tempts the church into practices of social exclusion and ...

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