A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Originally published at the beginning of the eighteenth-century Enlightenmenta powerful inspiring book thatexamines what it means to lead a Christian life that still speaks to our time.William Law''s A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favor of a spiritual life. More than simply articulating a set of rules to live by Law''s book examines what it means to lead a Christian life and criticizes the perversion of Christian tenents by the Establishmentwhether secular or spiritualwhose real aim is temporal power. With a preface by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr. whose own direct engagement in social causes still finds inspiration in Law''s argument A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life is a book that can still speak to our time.