Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament
Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament

Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament

by I. Howard Marshall, Kent E. Brower, Andy Johnson, George J. Brooke, Dwight Swanson, Donald A. Hagner, Richard P. Thompson, Richard J. Bauckham, Robert W. Wall, Michael J. Gorman, Peter Oakes, Bruce W. Winter, J. Ayodeji Adewuya, Troy W. Martin, George Lyons, J. Ross Wagner, Gordon J. Thomas, Joel B. Green, Ruth Anne Reese, and Dean Flemming

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Pages 385
Publisher Eerdmans
Published 2007
ISBN-13 9780802845603
Throughout the biblical story, the people of God are expected to embody God's holy character publicly. Therefore, holiness is a theological and ecclesial issue prior to being a matter of individual piety. "Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament" offers serious engagement with a variety of New Testament and Qumran documents in order to stimulate churches to imagine anew what it might mean to be a publicly identifiable people who embody God's very character in their particular social setting.

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This book explores how the “concepts of holiness and the people of God are related as they come to expression in a variety of biblical documents” (xvii). It is dedicated to Alex R. G. Deasley, Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary, and is a collection of essays written by friends, former students, and colleagues. In an excellent introduction, the editors identify five themes that emerge when the essays are viewed as a whole. Overarching all five themes is the locus of the project: the volume intentionally approaches the study of holiness with the stated assumption that holiness is a theological and community issue prior to being an individual concern. The editors identify a “clear limitation” in that, while the Old Testament grounds the discussion of holiness, there are no essays devoted directly to the study of holiness in the Old Testament. A second limitation is the diversity in viewpoint. There is general agreement that, prior to the eschaton, God calls a holy people to Spirit-enabled reflection of his character to some extent, while there is disagreement over just how much transformation a community, and the individuals making up the community, will experience. The first theme that captures the message of the book is that holiness is an orienting concern for Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. [Full Review]