Social Holiness

Rarely does one find a book on the topic of holiness with such depth as well as breadth. Kreider takes us on a journey deep into biblical territory and back again into the lives of nations churches families and individuals. In this journey the reader is convicted and drawn by the beauty of holiness. We Pentecostals need this word. --Cheryl Bridges Johns Church of God Theological Seminary Kreiders Social Holiness surprises! While holiness indeed owns the otherness of God and the call to be Gods separated people it does much more. Holiness unleashes in history a living force a dynamism that envisions the sanctification of Gods entire creation. Holiness is positive the heartbeat of Missio Dei. I highly recommend this book for its life-changing potential both personally and for the church as Gods new nation. --Willard M. Swartley Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Alan Kreider writes a masterful narrative about social holiness from which Pentecostals can learn much as they reaffirm and recover this important dimension of their heritage. Its familiar terrain serves not only as a timely reminder of a way of life Pentecostals still cherish but also as a challenge to reconsider crucial features of that way of life long forgotten. --Dale M. Coulter Regent University Alan Kreider has gifted us with an inspiring hopeful and transformative invitation to follow Jesus on the journey toward personal and social holiness. His prophetic call to participate in Jesus transnational renewal movement challenges families congregations students and all Christians with practical ideas emerging from the biblical story of Gods kingship and our citizenship in the holy nation. [ I appreciate his emphasis on moral zeal experience liberating action storytelling praise and the risk of repentance and trust and think] this book can be a great resource for helping the church with our public witness to Christs shalom in a broken world. --Paul Alexander Azusa Pacific University Kreiders Social Holiness breaks new ground and makes new connections both in his overview of biblical history and in his application of social holiness to the contemporary church. I hope this book will help many believers today - Wesleyans Anabaptists and those from other traditions - become more fully and authentically a part of Gods holy nation in the world today. --Howard A. Snyder Asbury Theological Seminary Ours is the age of bombast exaggeration hyper-activism and self-importance--all of which leaves us feeling empty. We have lost the capacity for reverence awe and experience of the transcendent. Alan Kreider has the audacity to call us back to the transforming presence of God so that we become God-like. This books message can help set us free from the bondage of our self-centeredness and liberate us to participate in the mission of God. --Wilbert R. Shenk Fuller Theological Seminary Lively gutsy . . . Holiness is about practical social matters--such as economic relationships making peace working for justice . . . Kreider takes us through the Bible to show how deeply these themes are embedded in the text and how persistent has been the failure of the community of faith to be true to them . . . A must for serious-minded Christians today. --Rt. Rev. John Gladwin Bishop of Chelmsford in Third Way Alan Kreider is Associate Professor of Church History and Mission Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and author of English Chantries: The Road to Dissolution and The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom. Dale M. Coulter is Associate Professor of Historical Theology Regent University and author of Per Visibilia ad Invisibilia: Theological Method in Richard of St Victor (d 1173) and Holiness: The Beauty of Perfection