Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination

Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination

by Thomas B Dozeman
ISBN-10:
0195367332
ISBN-13:
9780195367331
Pub. Date:
07/10/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195367332
ISBN-13:
9780195367331
Pub. Date:
07/10/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination

Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination

by Thomas B Dozeman
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Overview

The World Council of Churches has called 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. This book is a response to that call. It is grounded in the assumption that the vocation of ordination requires an understanding of holiness and how it functions in human religious experience. The goal is to construct a biblical theology of ordination that is embedded in broad reflection on the nature of holiness. Dozeman's study of holiness and ministry interweaves three methodologies. The first, from the History of Religions, describes two theories of holiness in the study of religion, as a dynamic force and as a ritual resource. Both play a central role in biblical literature and establish the paradigm of ordination to Word and Sacrament in Christian tradition. Second, the study of the formation of the Mosaic Office illustrates how the two views of holiness model ordination to the prophetic word and to the priestly ritual. Third, Canonical Criticism provides the lens to explore the ongoing influence of the Mosaic Office in the New Testament literature.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195367331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/10/2008
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents


Introduction     3
Holiness and Ordination     12
The Mosaic Office as the Model for Ordination     35
Holiness and the Ordination to the Divine Word in Deuteronomy and in the New Testament     60
Holiness and the Ordination to Sacramental Rituals in the Priestly Literature and in the New Testament     81
Holiness and Ordination in the New Testament Literature     104
The Mosaic Office and the Ordination to Word and Sacrament in Christian Tradition     120
Notes     141
Scripture Index     149
Author Index     155
Subject Index     157
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