English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

The project of articulating a theological ethics on the basis of liturgical anthropology is bound to fail if the necessary consequence is that one has to quit the forum of critical modern rationality. The risk of Engelhardt's approach is to limit rationality to a narrow vision of reason. Sin is not to be understood as the negation of human holiness, but as the negation of divine holiness. The o...

I argue that God’s holiness as conceived in Hebrew Scripture grounds human obligations to obey divine commands. To disobey the commands of a holy God would disrespect basic good, which we have decisive reason avoid doing. may be somewhat obscure property––though propose transcendence and perfect morality necessary conditions––but His omniscience guarantee He not command beings do things ground ...

This study aims to shape the identity of accountants through religious values holiness. Tazkiyah is a method used explore in order reposition accountant's identity. The results this indicate that accounting has always had an image holiness based on teachings. Meanwhile, have implications for ethical code profession as and basis business practices, which cannot be separated from values. Furtherm...

Abstract This paper shows that the protagonists of Byzantine Passions are often depicted as attaining holiness while on move: after their arrest by pagan soldiers, Christian martyrs subjected to travels for legal reasons. Drawing anthropological concept liminality (Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner), I will suggest such inflicted or transfers in serve liminal phases between interrogation, tortur...