I do not have at hand the books and tools necessary to trace the development of this teaching on defilement. |
Among these communities, economic interdependence was inescapable but the boundaries of defilement remained. |
Jesus seems neither to have confirmed nor to have denied that eating impure food leads to ritual defilement. |
Kant proclaimed it the worst conceivable defilement of a person's humanity. |
But this issue of association and defilement, as some have been teaching and practising among us, has a number of serious problems. |
Hence, the Docetists taught that since Christ is holy, He could never have had the defilement of human flesh. |