Embodied Holiness: Toward a Corporate Theology of Spiritual Growth

What Does the Body - Physical & Social - Have to Do With Holiness? Modern Western Christianity has too often seen holiness and growth in Christian character as exclusively an individual and spiritual (or non-physical) matter. Centered on a suggestive proposal about the sanctified body by Stanley Hauerwas, the essays in this provocative volume argue contrary to that tendency, insisting that any genuine Christian holiness is vitally related to our physical and social bodies. Along with way, the essayists trace crucial confusions in ecclesiology, prayer and social action to the distorted nonbodily understanding of sanctification. Essays and authors include The Sanctified Body by Stanley Hauerwas The Human Person as Intercessory Prayer by Craig Keen Tacit Holiness by Rodney Clapp Holiness as the Renewal of the Image of God in the Individual & Society by Theodore Runyon Paying Attention: Holiness in the Life Writings of Early Methodist Women by Joyce Quiring Erickson The Once & Future Church Revisited by Michael G. Cartwright ‘And He Felt Compassion’: Holiness Beyond the Bounds of Community by Michael E. Lodahl A Contribution to a Wesleyan Understanding of Holiness & Community by Samuel M. Powell