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Perfecting Grace Holiness, Human Being, and the Sciences

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ISBN-10: 0567025535

ISBN-13: 9780567025531

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark H. Mann, Mann

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Mark Mann seeks to renew discussion of the doctrine of holiness in Christian theology by using the human sciences as a tol for theological reconstruction.
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Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Mark H. Mann teaches at Colgate University.

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