03366cam a2200589Ma 4500 ocn847592106 OCoLC 20200709060155.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 121227s2012 enk ob 000 0 eng d E7B eng pn E7B OCLCO CNMTR OCLCQ N$T COO YDXCP EBLCP DEBSZ OCLCQ JSTOR 884647975 9780718840471 (electronic bk.) 071884047X (electronic bk.) 0718892569 9780718892562 (OCoLC)847592106 (OCoLC)884647975 22573/ctt1cg4rjx JSTOR BF575.A886 B43 2012eb REL 067070 bisacsh REL028000 bisacsh REL067070 bisacsh REL075000 bisacsh 241 23 MAIN Beck, Richard. Unclean [electronic resource] : meditations on purity, hospitality, and mortality / Richard Beck. Cambridge, U.K. : Lutterworth Press, 2012. 1 online resource (x, 201 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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. "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 a Gnostic "flight" from the world into a "too spiritual" spirituality. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Aversion Religious aspects. Purity (Ethics) Religious aspects. Hospitality Religious aspects. Mortality Religious aspects. RELIGION Christian Theology Ethics. bisacsh RELIGION / Ethics bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Beck, Richard. Unclean : Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. Havertown : The Lutterworth Press, ©2012 9780718892562 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813818 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1747654 ebrary EBRY ebr10634141 EBSCOhost EBSC 813818 YBP Library Services YANK 10349561 92 N$T 55094 55094