Holiness - Ryle, J. C.

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Résumé :
Ryle offers no easy way to holiness but produces that hunger and thirst after righteousness, which is the only indispensable condition to being filled. An essential guide to the Christian life. J.C. Ryle's method is obvious--scriptural and expository. He never starts with a theory into which he fits scriptures. He always begins with the Word and expounds it clearly and logically. The result is a clear enunciation of doctrine and a call to action and is entirely free from the sentimentality often described as devotional. He has drunk deeply from the wells of the Puritans, and his writing is a distillation of true Puritan theology presented in a highly readable modern form. Ryle offers no easy way to holiness but produces that hunger and thirst after righteousness, which is the only indispensable condition to being filled. Holiness is an essential guide to the Christian life. John Charles Ryle (1816 -1900) was a committed evangelical and the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. He wrote numerous tracts and books, many still in print. His sermons and writings on subjects as diverse as happiness and good preaching are as wise, challenging and relevant as they were in his day.

Biographie:
John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) graduated from Eton and Oxford and then pursued a career in politics, but due to lack of funds, he entered the clergy of the Church of England. He was a contemporary of Spurgeon, Moody, Mueller, and Taylor and read the great theologians like Wesley, Bunyan, Knox, Calvin, and Luther. These all influenced Ryle's understanding and theology. Ryle began his writing career with a tract following the Great Yarmouth suspension bridge tragedy, where more than a hundred people drowned. He gained a reputation for straightforward preaching and evangelism. He travelled, preached, and wrote more than 300 pamphlets, tracts, and books, including Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Principles for Churchmen, and Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century. Ryle used the royalties from his writing to pay his father's debts, but he also felt indebted to that ruin for changing the direction of his life. He was recommended by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to be Bishop of Liverpool where he ended his career in 1900.

Sommaire:
Ryle offers no easy way to holiness but produces that hunger and thirst after righteousness, which is the only indispensable condition to being filled. An essential guide to the Christian life. J.C. Ryle's method is obvious--scriptural and expository. He never starts with a theory into which he fits scriptures. He always begins with the Word and expounds it clearly and logically. The result is a clear enunciation of doctrine and a call to action and is entirely free from the sentimentality often described as devotional. He has drunk deeply from the wells of the Puritans, and his writing is a distillation of true Puritan theology presented in a highly readable modern form. Ryle offers no easy way to holiness but produces that hunger and thirst after righteousness, which is the only indispensable condition to being filled. Holiness is an essential guide to the Christian life. John Charles Ryle (1816 -1900) was a committed evangelical and the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. He wrote numerous tracts and books, many still in print. His sermons and writings on subjects as diverse as happiness and good preaching are as wise, challenging and relevant as they were in his day....