Holiness : Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Really, what is Holiness? What is the Holiness movement? As a Christian, what do I need to know? There’s been many teachings and interpretation, and therefore, confusion.

This is a perfect book to understanding the biblical meaning on holiness, for your Christian growth. Holiness, Ryle argued, was not simply a matter of believing and feeling, but of doing.

In his foreword, John MacArthur wrote :
“Ryle wrote Holiness to answer some fashionable but dangerous teachings about sanctification, the Christian’s struggle with sin, and the so-called deeper life. By the second half of the nineteenth century, conservative evangelicals in Britain and America had begun to develop an unprecedented infatuation with mystical, experiential, inward-looking concepts of personal holiness. The result was widespread confusion regarding the biblical doctrine of sanctification. Ryle was a refreshing voice of biblical clarity in the midst of many muddled and deluded views. This book was his most important and most enduring answer to the Holiness movement, and it is as relevant and helpful today as ever.”

“I love Ryle’s style for its unusual clarity and unflinching faithfulness to Scripture. He addresses the issue of sin, for example, with refreshing candor; his approach to handling doctrine is expository first, then systematic; and he is always faithful to the text (and context) of whatever Scripture he deals with.”

Content:
Foreword: John MacArthur
Biographical Introduction
1. Sin
2. Sanctification
3. Holiness
4. The Fight
5. The Cost
6. Growth
7. The Ruler of the Waves
8. “Lovest Thou Me”?
9. “Christ is All”

This edition is a new, slimmed down version and consists in a series of excerpts from Ryle’s masterwork.

J. C. RYLE (1816–1900) was a prominent writer, preacher, and Anglican clergyman in nineteenth-century Britain. He is the author of the classic Expository Thoughts on the Gospels and retired as the bishop of Liverpool.