Unclean : meditations on purity, hospitality, and mortality /

"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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beck, Richard, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. : Lutterworth Press, 2012.
Temas:
Aversion > Religious aspects.
Purity (Ethics) > Religious aspects.
Hospitality > Religious aspects.
Mortality > Religious aspects.
Aversion > Aspect religieux.
Pureté (Morale) > Aspect religieux.
Hospitalité > Aspect religieux.
Mortalité > Aspect religieux.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
RELIGION > Ethics.
Hospitality > Religious aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Mercy and sacrifice
  • pt. 1. Unclean. Darwin and disgust
  • Contamination and contagion
  • pt. 2. Purity. Morality and metaphors
  • Divinity and dumbfounding
  • pt. 3. Hospitality. Love and boundaries
  • Monsters and scapegoats
  • Contempt and heresy
  • Hospitality and embrace
  • pt. 4. Mortality. Body and death
  • Sex and privy
  • Need and incarnation
  • Conclusion: Elimination and regulation.

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