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Holiness: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Theology

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, 2023
ISBN: 9781514002308
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Be holy because I am holy. Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

The Christian life includes many demands, but perhaps none are as challenging or as misunderstood as the biblical command to “be holy” (Leviticus 11:44 and 1 Peter 1:16) or to “be perfect” (Matthew 5:48). How should we understand these charges?

In this volume, three scholars from the Wesleyan tradition offer a collective treatment of the theme of holiness that includes:

  • exegesis of key biblical passages
  • a survey across church history
  • theological reflections on the relationship between entire sanctification and other doctrines

In addition, the coauthors constructively argue for a “neo-Holiness” that encourages the pursuit of Christian perfection but avoids the pitfalls of Pelagianism by incorporating historic understandings of grace and the work of the Holy Spirit with the best of the Wesleyan tradition.

Here, the commands to “be holy” and to “be perfect” take on new meaning. What may have been a burden becomes a blessing.

  • Offers a collective treatment of the theme of holiness
  • Provides theological reflections on the relationship between entire sanctification and other doctrines
  • Argues for a “neo-Holiness” that encourages the pursuit of Christian perfection
  • 1. Introduction

    • Part One: “Be Holy Because I Am Holy”: Holiness in the Old Testament

  • 2. Holiness in the Pentateuch
  • 3. Holiness in the Historical Books and the Prophets
  • 4. Holiness in the Wisdom Literature

    • Part Two: “Be Perfect as Your Heavenly Father is Perfect”: Holiness in the New Testament

  • 5. Holiness in the Gospels and Acts
  • 6. Holiness in the Letters of Paul
  • 7. Holiness in the General Epistles and Revelation

    • Part Three: “A Chosen People, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation”: Holiness in Christian History

  • 8. Early Foundations for Holiness
  • 9. Holiness in the Middle Ages
  • 10. Holiness in the Premodern and Modern Era

    • Part Four: “Sanctified Through and Through”: A Theology of Holiness

  • 11. Holiness and Human Sin
  • 12. Holiness and Redemption
  • 13. The When and How of Holiness
  • 14. Conclusion
Doesn’t holiness mean that God stands in judgment over us because of our sin? Ayars, Bounds, and Friedeman answer that God’s holiness and graciousness are inextricably linked. By providing a careful survey of how holiness is understood both in the Old and New Testaments and by orthodox theologians from different eras and denominational backgrounds, the authors point us to a holy God who invites us to come as we are so that we can become like him. This book both uplifts and challenges us to accept this invitation by leaving a life of mediocrity and compromise to embrace a life of holiness.

—Mark R. Teasdale, E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

John Wesley was convinced that God had raised up the Methodists to ‘spread scriptural holiness throughout the land.’ In many modern expressions of Christianity, a concern for holiness has been neglected—not only within evangelicalism generally but also within much of the Methodist tradition. This book seeks to recapture the vision of the Wesleys, showing that the doctrine is grounded in Scripture as well as the deep and broad Christian tradition. It will be a blessing to both fellow Wesleyans and Reformed Christians who will find much with which they can heartily agree.

—Thomas H. McCall, Tennent Professor of Theology at Asbury Theological Seminary

This is a most welcome book. Its great strength is in its comprehensiveness. It shows how the Bible lays the foundation, how the church has built on that foundation over its history, and then how we can think about the concept in ways that are philosophically and theologically sound. The final section on the theology of holiness is especially to be commended; Bounds has done a great service in making the subject both comprehensible and compelling. Both those who do believe in holiness and those who don’t should read this book. Both will be helped.

—John Oswalt, visiting distinguished professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary

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