Jackie is a poet and an artist and those roles show up unmistakably in her writing style. This book is not a musing-it’s a doctrinal deep-dive. Her use of Scripture and reference to research and studied sources reveal the reverence and weight with which she handles the holiness of God. She tackles how our elevation of unholy things leads to idolatry, how God’s holiness brings justice and offers vision, and how beholding God in the unimaginable but believable truth of who He is leads to our sanctification, our over and over changing into being holy like He is holy. In seven manageable chapters, she unpacks the righteousness, moral perfection, and transcendence, or “otherness” of God. It seems Jackie’s goal, by the end of this book, is to make sure no reader can claim that kind of ignorance. Treating God like He’s ordinary might be a natural response when we’re ignorant to who God has revealed Himself to be.” “As incomparable as God is, it seems to me that one problem with us humans is that we become so used to the idea of God that we treat Him as commonplace. In her 2021 release, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him, Jackie offers a detailed, logically beautiful examination of God’s holiness and the ways that holiness should transform how we see and experience Him. Known for her unapologetic candor, Jackie is marked by the evidences of someone who has seen the truth of God with her own eyes and lives a life wildly and constantly changed by it.
Jackie Hill Perry is a Bible teacher, poet, artist, and bestselling author of Gay Girl, Good God and Bible study resources. Written by Hannah Stovall, published September 2022
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