J. C. Ryle

A Call to Prayer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer." -- J. C. Ryle J. C. Ryle observed that private prayer is both the most important and the most neglected of the Christian disciplines, so he delivers this passionate and reasoned call to private prayer. As ever Ryle is clear, direct, practical, soul-searching but warm and encouraging--never sentimental. This is a attractive hardcover edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Benediction Classics
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781789432671
• ISBN-10: 1789432677
• Artikelnr.: 62109590

Autorenporträt

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.