Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality Christopher Hart ISBN10: 1604521503

ISBN10: 1604521503

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Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality Christopher Hart ISBN10: 1604521503Description: "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 communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. At every turn, it seems that the psychological pull of purity and holiness tempts the church into