The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

 Diane Leclerc. Singleness of Heart: Gender, Sin, and Holiness in Historical Perspective. The Scarecrow Press. 2001.       Some books offer fresh and persuasive interpretations of historical figures. Others make important contributions to theological reflection today. A book that does either of these well deserves our attention and gratitude. Diane Leclerc has written a book that does both. She addresses an issue that is at the heart of the Wesleyan Holiness tradition: The relation of sin and holiness. Theologically our diagnosis of the problem of sin must correspond to our holiness cure. Western Christianity, following Augustine, has understood the fundamental sin…