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Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
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Movement
Puritanism
Vigorous
Youthful
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The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
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Obsessed
Puritan
Wealth
Dangers
Puritans
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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Christian
Christian Life
Energy
Heroic
Puritan
Quota
Thinking
Venture
Requiring
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Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
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People
Serving God
Stewards
Worker
God Work People
Calls
Steward
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Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
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Everyday
Stress
Withdrawal
Earthly
Stressing
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The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
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Home
Church
Organs
Use
Bought
Churches
Homes
Puritans
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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.
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Great Business
Holiness
Quests
Spiritual
Life Business Great
Puritans
Quest
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The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
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Bible
Actually
Authors
Original
Clearly
Possible
Text
Translation
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The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.
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Art
Christian
Religious
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The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
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Biblical
Goal
Translations
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The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.
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Bible
Book
Unique
Writing
Covers
Literary
Mixed
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William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
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Men
Calling
Riches
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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 recurrent Puritan theme.
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Firsts
Priorities
Priorities In Life
Puritan
Relation
Theme
Life God Everything
Greatest
Everything Else
Strengths
Valuing
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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 baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
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Baggage
Enormous
Groups
People
Prejudice
Twentieth Century
Ingrained
Maligned
Puritans
Twentieth
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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.
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Hypocrisy
Puritanism
Religious
Slang
Term
Thinking
Victorian
Applied
Rid
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A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
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Christian
Christian Faith
Distinctive
Issues
Philosophy
Address
Begins
Feature
Relates
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Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
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Giving
Kind
Literature
Meanings
Obtained
Vicariously
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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 explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.
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Art
Greek
Imitation
Materials
Real
Real Life
Theory
Belongs
Explains
Greeks
Oldest
Regarded
Takes
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Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.
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Appreciation
Smile
Benefits
Tasks
Understanding
Benefit
Enhanced
Readers
Task
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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
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Aspire
Attainment
Bible
Levels
Self
Want
Calls
Current
Substitute
Readers
Selves
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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 easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.
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Bible
Biblical
Contradictory
Indifference
Skepticism
Steps
Text
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There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.
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Bible
Growing
Literature
Quiet
Revolution
Scholarship
Center
Complete
Literary
Methods
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Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.
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Reality
Zest
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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 taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
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Banned
Bowling
Gambling
Games
Horse
Horse Racing
Immoral
Judged
Racing
Recreation
Activities
Bear
Harmful
Inherently
Opposed
Puritans
Sundays
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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. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.
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Bible
Biblical
Despite
Done
Neglect
Way
Original
Builds
Claim
Literary
Intended
Interpret
Meaning Of
Recover
Scholars
Text
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It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.
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Discovery
Expression
Self
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