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For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God... →
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around... →
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... →
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and... →
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it... →
With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an... →
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is... →
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