Entry · Sanctification
From the Latin sanctificare — to make holy, to set apart. In Christian theology: the ongoing work of the Spirit conforming the believer to the image of Christ. Not a single moment. A lifelong discipline.
Most Christians can tell you what justification is. Fewer can articulate sanctification with the same precision. That asymmetry costs something.
The church has historically produced an enormous body of reflection on holiness — word studies, biographical examples, doctrinal formulations, ascetic traditions, devotional commentaries. It is scattered. Unsystematized. Largely inaccessible to the person who simply wants to understand what the Spirit is doing in them and how to cooperate with it.
Sanctipedia is a reference work for that person — a structured, searchable body of content on the doctrine, discipline, and biography of holiness.
The planned content covers three axes: doctrine (what Scripture teaches), word studies (Greek and Hebrew terms for holiness, purity, transformation), and biography (men and women whose lives display what the doctrine looks like when it actually takes hold).
The target reader is not a seminary student. It is a Christian who takes the pursuit of holiness seriously and wants tools proportional to that seriousness.
Content in formation. Entries forthcoming.