Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality by Richard Beck

Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

Richard Beck

201 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction psychology religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Description: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith ...

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