This is the first volume of a three-volume work, Exploring Christian Holiness. It is a survey of the biblical foundations of the doctrine, experience, and life of holiness. The second volume, authored by Doctors Paul M. Bassett and William M. Greathouse, deals with the historical developent of holiness teaching through the Christian centuries. The third volume by Dr. Richard S. Taylor takes up the subsequent theological formulation of the doctrine. Paperback.
W. T. Purkiser (1910-92) was a prolific writer, respected scholar, and well-loved preacher within the Church of the Nazarene who also had a significant voice in the larger evangelical Christian community. He authored and contributed to some of the most widely disseminated and enduring works in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.