Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in
Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to
characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. In
Divine Holiness and Divine Action, Mark C. Murphy defends an account
of holiness indebted to Rudolf Otto's description of the experience of
the holy as that of a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. God's being
holy consists in God's being someone with whom intimate union is both
extremely desirable for us and yet something for which we--and indeed
any limited beings--are unfit. This notion of divine holiness is
useful for addressing disputed theological questions regarding divine
action. In contrast to standard accounts of divine action that begin
with assumptions regarding God's moral perfection or God's maximal
love, the appeal to divine holiness supports a rival framework for
explaining and predicting divine action--the holiness
framework--according to which God is motivated to act in ways that are
a response to God's own value by keeping distance from that which is
deficient, defective, or in any way limited in goodness. This study
exhibits the fruitfulness of a reorientation from the morality and
love frameworks to the holiness framework by showing how such a
reorientation suggests distinct approaches to perennial problems of
divine action regarding creation, incarnation, atonement, and
salvation. From the treatment of these perennial problems, a general
theme regarding divine action emerges: that God's interaction with the
world exhibits a radical sort of humility.
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9780192633880
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2021
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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