Faithfulness and Holiness is two books in one. First, it’s a survey of Ryle’s life and work, highlighting his quality and stature as an English evangelical leader; and second, it’s a reprint of the first edition of his book Holiness, published in 1877.
FAITHFULNESS & HOLINESS
“Bishop John Charles Ryle (1816–1900), who came to faith in the year of Queen Victoria’s accession and died one year before she did, was, from start to finish, three things together—an evangelical believer, an Anglican Churchman, and a pastoral instructor. As an evangelical, he maintained the style and substance of those clergy who gathered first around George Whitefield and then around John Newton in the eighteenth century. As a Churchman, he vigorously upheld the Reformed, anti-Roman Catholic theology of the Thirty-nine Articles, along with the Protestant catholicity embodied in the Book of Common Prayer. And as a pastor he taught Christian conduct, devotion, and character transformed by the Holy Spirit in the way that the great seventeenth-century Puritans had done before him. All the best elements of the Church of England’s evangelical heritage were embodied in him, arguably in the best way. . . . As it was, insofar as Anglican evangelicals had one acknowledged leader for the last third of the nineteenth century, Ryle was that man.” From the Foreword
FAITHFULNESS & HOLINESS Th e W i t n e s s o f J . C . R y l e
J. I. PACKER (PhD, Oxford University) is Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College. He is author of the classic bestseller Knowing God, as well as numerous other titles.
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THEOLOGY / HOLINESS
J.I. PACKER
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.
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J.I.PACKER Includi ng t he f u l l text of t he fi rst edit ion of Ryle’s cla ssic book , Holiness