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The universal call to holiness is a teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that all people are called to be holy, and is based on Matthew 5:48: "Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48).
While some have pointed out that the broader holiness movement has declined in its original strong emphasis of the doctrine of entire sanctification, [85] the conservative holiness movement still frequently promotes, [86] preaches, [87] and teaches this definition of holiness and entire sanctification, both at the scholarly level, [88] and in ...
Outward holiness, or external holiness, is a Wesleyan–Arminian doctrine emphasizing holy living, service, modest dress and sober speech. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Additionally, outward holiness manifests as "the expression of love through a life characterised by 'justice, mercy and truth ' ". [ 3 ]
In his Apostolic Constitution Ut Sit, John Paul II declared that "this Institution has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice; it has also endeavored to put into practice the teaching of the universal call to holiness, and to promote at all levels of society the sanctification of ordinary ...
Holiness and suppression are incompatible terms. "The old man" and counteraction make a pale and sickly kind of holiness doctrine. It is holiness and eradication or holiness not at all. Another key aspect of the Holiness movement is their close adherence to Wesley's definition of sin. Wesley stated in a letter: [82]
Leading Holiness Scholar Leslie D. Wilcox concluded that "holiness writers, following the Wesleyan theology, define sin as a willful transgression of a known law of God." [11] The Inter-Church Holiness Convention following John Wesley defines sin as "a willful transgression against a known law of God. This means that there must be knowledge of ...
The Holiness Code is also the origin of God’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself” and also to “love the alien as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18 and 34).
Holiness Pentecostalism is the original branch of Pentecostalism, which is characterized by its teaching of three works of grace: [1] the New Birth (first work of grace), [2] entire sanctification (second work of grace), and [3] Spirit baptism evidenced by speaking in tongues (third work of grace).