Holiness
J. C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots (1877)
J. C. Ryle
Plain, blunt, pastoral, and entirely without patience for a holiness that never shows.
- Catch rate
- 75 / 255
- Base research
- 178
- Stat total
- 320
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Cited for this book
Ryle wrote against a comfortable Victorian religion and against a rising "let go and let God" teaching that made sanctification a single crisis rather than a long fight. His holiness is visible by definition: a changed temper, changed company, changed use of time. If none of that has moved, he says, there is nothing there to have been sanctified.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It Cannot Be Hid | Spirituality | Argument | 84 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 34 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 40 | Rest | Spirituality | rest | — | 100% | 5 |
| 50 | Depraved Custom | Ethics | Argument | 88 | 100% | 5 |