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Book Review: Rediscovering Holiness by J.I. Packer

Pages: 282
Pub­lisher: Regal
Year: 1992 (2009)
Author: J.I. Packer

Liv­ing a life which is pleas­ing to God is a dif­fi­cult task for many Chris­tians, who find them­selves liv­ing in a world which teaches the supremacy of desire, and the exal­ta­tion of self. It’s extremely unfor­tu­nate that many in the church have been so open to accept­ing and adopt­ing many of the teach­ings of their (rel­a­tive) soci­ety, inte­grat­ing them into the church–a mis­di­rected attempt at mak­ing the church more effec­tive within a par­tic­u­lar cul­ture, per­haps? The fact remains, how­ever, that moder­nity presents a set of chal­lenges to the Chris­t­ian that is unseen in his­tory, and these chal­lenges will prob­a­bly only get “worse,” so long as Chris­tians live in ambivalence.

Mod­ern­iza­tion is per­ceived self-sufficiency–medical break­throughs, greatly length­ened life spans, tech­no­log­i­cal feats which would have been unheard of just one hun­dred years ago. Chris­tians have become com­pla­cent as the need to “lean” … (Read more)