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Leland Ryken
American Educator
Actually Bible God Life People Work
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
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. Leland Ryken
Harmful Sundays Immoral Puritans Bear Horse Horse Racing Recreation True Bowling Judged Because Around Opposed Were Times Did Banned Racing Gambling Inherently Games Fun Activities Chance
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. Leland Ryken
Life Energy Christian Thinking Heroic Puritan Venture Quota Requiring Full Christian 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 was a recurrent Puritan theme. Leland Ryken
Life God First Sense Else Relation Everything Everything Else Valuing Puritan Puritans Putting Greatest Priorities Theme Strengths
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote. Leland Ryken
Bible Translation Possible See Clearly Wrote Goal Text Authors Transparent Original Actually
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. Leland Ryken
Faith Christian Relates Address Philosophy Distinctive Feature Issues Begins Same Any Literature Agenda Christian Faith
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. Leland Ryken
Work Appreciation Understanding Benefit About Both Writer Writers Readers Methods Task Information Literature Turn Themselves Helpful Enhanced
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth. Leland Ryken
Wealth Dangers Puritans Obsessed Were
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. Leland Ryken
Bible Every Approach Despite Neglect Neglected Way Claim Has-Been Recover Scholars Simply Read Builds Been Text Intended Done Literary Turn Meaning Meaning Of Turn-On Original Interpret Necessary
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. Leland Ryken
Knowledge Experience Living Possible Kind Gives Through Obtained Subject Vicariously Literature Meanings
Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life. Leland Ryken
Life Everyday Earthly Lead Withdrawal Stressing

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