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Faculty Psychology In The Holiness Theology Of Asa Mahan, Christopher P. Momany
Faculty Psychology In The Holiness Theology Of Asa Mahan, Christopher P. Momany
The Asbury Journal
As America awakened to a greater antislavery consciousness, Asa Mahan, president of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute, presented his seminal reflection on Christian Perfection. Mahan offered an unusually precise definition of perfection or holiness. The Oberlin president borrowed from Scottish Common Sense Realism to suggest an understanding of Christian Perfection that was both personally rigorous and socially prophetic. This conception of holiness was also rooted in a commitment to objective truth.