A review by caitlin_89
Holier Than Thou: How God's Holiness Helps Us Trust Him by Jackie Hill Perry

3.0

This is a really good, straightforward look at what it means that God is holy, and what it looks like to acknowledge and embrace that holiness as his people. This was honestly kind of a tough read, and several bits made me feel like it could have used a better editor. It was also excellently truth-focuses though, and if it were easier to read it'd be a great primer on who God is and what it really means to be a christian. The chapters on God's justice and our recieving "holy vision" through the Spirit were especially illuminating for me. It's hard in our culture to hold God's intolerance of sin and his unfailing love together in one thought. But it's essential, and Jackie does a great job explaining how his holiness would not be without this dichotomy, and that, truly, it's not a dichotomy because of Jesus — God's justice lets no sin go unpunished. Yet He wasn't willing to leave us separated for him, hence Jesus as the sacrificial fulfilment of God's demand for justice.

It's a good read. I recommend it with the caveat that there are probably easier-to-read materials that communicate the same thing, albeit probably with less poetic language.