Religion Quotes by Leland Ryken

9 Religion quotes by Leland Ryken

Leland Ryken’s biblical scholarship on religion appears in nine short quotes, each offering a clear glimpse of his exegetical approach. This modest set provides a quick taste of his academic perspective.

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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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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls…

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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…

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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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The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former…

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“The end of learning, he said, is to “repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of…

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“Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by distance or…

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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…

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“In 1941, Dorothy L. Sayers provided a detailed analysis of that creative process in The Mind of the Maker. She developed the relevance of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

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“Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship…

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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…

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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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The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

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“If you want to make a Christian work, then be Christian, and simply try to make a beautiful work, into which your heart will…

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The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

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