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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Obsessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
- Puritanism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
- Christian Life
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- Nov 07, 2020