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Embodied Holiness: Toward a Corporate Theology of Spiritual Growth
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200 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1999
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Samuel M. Powell
18 books1 followerHere’s my official, academically heavy, biography–the sort of thing that publishers ask for.
Samuel M. Powell has taught at Point Loma Nazarene University since 1986. He is the editor (with Michael Lodahl) of Embodied Holiness (originally published by InterVarsity Press, 1999, now reprinted by Wipf & Stock), and the author of The Trinity in German Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Participating in God (Fortress Press, 2003), A Theology of Christian Spirituality (Abingdon Press, 2005), Discovering Our Christian Faith (Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2008), and several smaller monographs. He graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, Nazarene Theological Seminary and Claremont Graduate University and is an ordained deacon in the Church of the Nazarene. He served as secretary-treasurer of the Wesleyan Theological Society and is a member of the editorial committee of Kingswood Press. From 1999 to 2001 he participated in the John Templeton Foundation Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity. In 2005 he won the Wesleyan Theological Society’s Smith-Wynkoop award for his book, Participating In God: Creation and Trinity. The award recognizes recent publication of distinction in a research area related to the Wesleyan/Holiness tradition. Powell attends Mission Church of the Nazarene, where he teaches an adult Sunday School class. He lives in Santee, California with his wife, Terrie. He has two children and four grandchildren.
Samuel M. Powell has taught at Point Loma Nazarene University since 1986. He is the editor (with Michael Lodahl) of Embodied Holiness (originally published by InterVarsity Press, 1999, now reprinted by Wipf & Stock), and the author of The Trinity in German Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Participating in God (Fortress Press, 2003), A Theology of Christian Spirituality (Abingdon Press, 2005), Discovering Our Christian Faith (Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2008), and several smaller monographs. He graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University, Nazarene Theological Seminary and Claremont Graduate University and is an ordained deacon in the Church of the Nazarene. He served as secretary-treasurer of the Wesleyan Theological Society and is a member of the editorial committee of Kingswood Press. From 1999 to 2001 he participated in the John Templeton Foundation Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity. In 2005 he won the Wesleyan Theological Society’s Smith-Wynkoop award for his book, Participating In God: Creation and Trinity. The award recognizes recent publication of distinction in a research area related to the Wesleyan/Holiness tradition. Powell attends Mission Church of the Nazarene, where he teaches an adult Sunday School class. He lives in Santee, California with his wife, Terrie. He has two children and four grandchildren.
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March 14, 2024
Another read for class - a work made up of an assortment of essays from Wesleyan theologians and writers, that was hard to parse through. I was captivated by the title, and did enjoy the content when I was able to understand it, but at times this was a hard read.
To be fair, reading about "holiness" is not a riveting experience, but there was a lot in here about the communal nature of faith that I appreciated and will be reflecting on over the next few days. Much of these writers pose a resistance to modernist individualistic thinking, and encourage a more robust understanding of the individual when it comes to communal responsibility and communal development towards the person of Christ.
If you are in for the academic language and long chapters, read on! Despite it being academic writing in nature, I was encouraged by this groups writings and their desire to contribute to true spiritual growth within the body of Christ.
To be fair, reading about "holiness" is not a riveting experience, but there was a lot in here about the communal nature of faith that I appreciated and will be reflecting on over the next few days. Much of these writers pose a resistance to modernist individualistic thinking, and encourage a more robust understanding of the individual when it comes to communal responsibility and communal development towards the person of Christ.
If you are in for the academic language and long chapters, read on! Despite it being academic writing in nature, I was encouraged by this groups writings and their desire to contribute to true spiritual growth within the body of Christ.
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