"Alas, we've lost much of our earlier conviction that to be in ministry is to have one's life formed by God for the peculiar challenges of this high vocation. Tom Dozeman helped me to rediscover that conviction -- those who are called to ministry in Christ's name are also called to holiness of life. This is an encouraging, timely book." --Will Willimon, Bishop, North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church
"Thomas Dozeman has provided an essential resource to denominations and local congregations who are attempting to examine their theology and practice of ordination. The book provides a template for any Christian tradition seeking to locate the roots of its ordination practice and theology within the biblical witness. This biblical theology of ordination may well generate rich new conversations and important movements toward renewal of ordination within the churches." --Richard L. Eslinger, Professor of Worship and Homiletics at United Theological Seminary and author of
The Web of Preaching: New Options in Homiletical Method"This ambitious book fills a major gap in the field of Biblical Theology and provides a much needed resource to anyone involved in ministry. Dozeman draws on the resources of History of Religions to place the biblical traditions in a broader comparative perspective. He uses Canon Criticism to show how two divergent approaches to holiness in the biblical tradition can be used to complement each other. This book is a major contribution to the academic discipline of Biblical Theology, and is indispensable for anyone involved in seminary education." --John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale, and author of
Encounters with Biblical Theology
