When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God. - Leland Ryken
Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
- Leland Ryken
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification … - Leland Ryken
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification …
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreci… - Leland Ryken
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreci…
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. - Leland Ryken
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected… - Leland Ryken
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected…
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is th… - Leland Ryken
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is th…
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a… - Leland Ryken
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a…
Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life. - Leland Ryken
Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous… - Leland Ryken
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous…
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