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Secondary Holiness
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Abstract
A desideratum for a theory of God’s primary holiness is that it be possible to offer an account of how secondary holiness—the holiness of beings other than God—derives from it. This chapter aims to sketch such an account of secondary holiness. Holiness functions in the manner of Aristotelian pros hen homonymy, in which there is an explanatorily central property and other properties called by that name are so denominated because they stand in some relevant explanatory relationship to the central notion. While there are multiple such relationships to primary holiness, the main derivative sense of holiness as applied to nondivine things consists in being an object such that intimate unity with it counts as unity with the primarily holy God.
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Abstract
A desideratum for a theory of God’s primary holiness is that it be possible to offer an account of how secondary holiness—the holiness of beings other than God—derives from it.
This chapter aims to sketch such an account of secondary holiness.
Holiness functions in the manner of Aristotelian pros hen homonymy, in which there is an explanatorily central property and other properties called by that name are so denominated because they stand in some relevant explanatory relationship to the central notion.
While there are multiple such relationships to primary holiness, the main derivative sense of holiness as applied to nondivine things consists in being an object such that intimate unity with it counts as unity with the primarily holy God.
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