Leland Ryken Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
• For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
• Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
• The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.
• The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
• In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
• 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…
• Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
• 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…
• 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…
• The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
• 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…

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