meditations on purity, hospitality, and mortality Beck, Richard. creator text bibliography Electronic books. enk Cambridge, U.K Lutterworth Press 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (x, 201 pages) "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. 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. Richard Beck. Includes bibliographical references. Aversion Religious aspects Purity (Ethics) Religious aspects Hospitality Religious aspects Mortality Religious aspects RELIGION Christian Theology Ethics RELIGION / Ethics BF575.A886 B43 2012eb 241 Beck, Richard. Havertown : The Lutterworth Press, ©2012 9780718840471 071884047X 22573/ctt1cg4rjx JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813818 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813818 E7B 121227 20200709060155.0 ocn847592106 eng