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Zusatztext Alas, we've lost much of our earlier conviction that to be in ministry is to have one's life formed by God for the peculiar challenges of this high vocation. Tom Dozeman helped me to rediscover that conviction -- those who are called to ministry in Christ's name are also called to holiness of life. This is an encouraging, timely book. Informationen zum Autor Thomas B. Dozeman is Professor of Hebrew Bible at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the co-editor of A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Interpretation of the Pentateuch in Contemporary European Scholarship and author of God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition, along with a number of other books. Klappentext Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theological of Ordination is a response to the call of the World Council of Churches for renewed theological reflection on the biblical roots of ordination to strengthen the vocational identity of the ordained and to provide a framework for ecumenical dialogue. The volume is grounded in the assumption that the vocation of ordination requires an understanding of holiness and how it functions in human religious experience. Dozeman constructs a biblical theology of ordination, which is embedded in broad reflection on the nature of holiness. Zusammenfassung Holiness and Ministry will assist candidates for ordination to discern their call experience and establish professional identity within individual traditions of Christianity, while also providing a resource for ecumenical dialogue on the nature and purpose of Christian ordination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Introduction Chapter 2: Holiness and Ordination Chapter 3: The Mosaic Office as the Model for Ordination Chapter 4: The Ordination to the Divine Word in Deuteronomy and in the New Testament Chapter 5: The Ordination to Sacrament Rituals in the Priestly Literature and in the New Testament Chapter 6: The Offices of Ordination in the New Testament Chapter 7: The Mosaic Office and the Ordination to Word and Sacrament in Christian Tradition ...
