Cleanliness

[dsummersminet at comcast.net]

Original Message:
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From: Dave Land dmland at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:56:27 -0800
To: brin-l at mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Cleanliness


On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:09 PM, dsummersminet at comcast.net wrote:

> Original Message:
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> From: Dave Land dmland at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:03:21 -0800
> To: brin-l at mccmedia.com
> Subject: Re: Cleanliness
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:06 AM, dsummersminet at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Julia wrote
>>
>>> I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled "Godliness".  :)
>>
>> I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ).  "Who first
>> said
>> 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why?"
>
>> Are you referring to Wesley, or one of the ancient Babylonian and  
>> Hebrew
>> texts in which the idea seems to have originated?
>
> Wesley

>Are you now, or have you ever been, a Methodist? 

No, but my wife use to be one

>Or are you just much better-read in 18th-century theologians 
>than most?

Well, I'm fairly well read in theologians.  My wife is in seminary, and I
spend three days a week up there.  With my philosophy background, &
Catholic university training,  theology usually comes pretty easy. 

But, that statement wasn't really theological.  It was a social work
statement.  At that time, the importance of hygine to health was becoming
well established.  He was promoting cleanliness for health to coal miners
and other poor workers with that statement.

Dan M. 

Dave

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