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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Holiness and Anthropology in the Holiness Tradition | |
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Holiness in John Wesley's Thought | |
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Phoebe Palmer's Revivalist Altar Theology | |
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Daniel Steele and the Theology of the Holiness Movement | |
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Mildred Bangs Wynkoop's Neo-Wesleyan Critique of Holiness Theology | |
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Anthropological Considerations | |
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Wynkoop's Relational Model | |
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Steele's Eradicationist Anthropology | |
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Palmer's Rationalism | |
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Wesley and the Habituation of the Affections | |
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Core Anthropological Assumptions | |
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A Neuroscientific Perspective on the Nature of Human Being | |
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The Curious Case of Phineas Gage | |
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The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Brain | |
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The Brain and the Will: Reason, Emotion, and Decision Making | |
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The Neurology of Religious Experience and Practice | |
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Implications for an Anthropology and Theology of Holiness | |
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A Sociological Perspective on the Nature of Human Being | |
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The Social Construction of Reality | |
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Religion and the Construction of Reality | |
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Society, Religion, and Persons | |
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Sociology, Reductionism, and Human Transcendence | |
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Implications for an Anthropology and Theology of Holiness | |
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A Psychological Perspective on the Nature of Human Being | |
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Psychological Models in the Thought of Freud | |
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Erikson and Freud | |
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Human Development and the Life Cycle | |
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The Stages of the Life Cycle | |
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Religion and Ritual through the Life Cycle | |
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Implications for an Anthropology and Theology of Holiness | |
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Weaving Things Together: A Theological Anthropology in Light of the Sciences | |
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The Deficiency of Traditional Holiness Models | |
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Anthropological Models in the Holiness Tradition | |
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The Problematic Nature of Traditional Holiness Models | |
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Challenges to a Theology of Holiness | |
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Reductionistic Materialism and Determinism | |
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Complexity and Ambiguity | |
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A Constructive Model of Human Being in Light of the Sciences | |
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Human Being as a Multidimensional Unity | |
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Human Being as an Individual Center of Relatedness | |
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Human Being as a Structured Dynamism | |
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Human Being as Embedded Freedom | |
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Conclusion | |
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Responsibility and Grace: Anthropological Foundations for an Interpretation of Holiness | |
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Called unto Holiness: Holiness and Grace in the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition | |
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Holiness of Heart and the Image of God | |
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The Disoriented Image: Original Sin, Estrangement, and the Fall | |
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The Wesleyan-Holiness Account of Sin | |
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Erikson and the Development of the Moral Image | |
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Excursus: Erikson and the Irenaean Account of Original Sin | |
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Berger and the Social Nature of the Moral Image | |
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The Disoriented Image, Ambiguity, and Human Estrangement | |
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Reconciliation: The Reordering of the Image of God | |
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Christian Holiness and the Fullness of Being Human | |
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Christian Perfection and the Symbols of Perfection | |
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Revalorizing Traditional Symbols of Perfection | |
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Resources for New Symbols of Perfection: Developmental Theory | |
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Resources for New Symbols of Perfection: Social Theory | |
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Sanctification and the Means of Grace | |
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Assurance and the Means of Discernment | |
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Theology as Pastoralia and the Ambiguities of Life | |
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Bibliography | |