Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really WereZondervan Academic, 28 սեպ, 2010 թ. - 300 էջ "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity." -Harry Stout, Yale University "...the typical Puritans were not wild men, fierce and freaky, religious fanatics and social extremists, but sober, conscientious, and cultured citizens, persons of principle, determined and disciplined excelling in the domestic virtues, and with no obvious shortcomings save a tendency to run to words when saying anything important, whether to God or to a man. At last the record has been put straight." -J.I. Packer, Regent College "Worldly Saints provides a revealing treasury of primary and secondary evidence for understanding the Puritans, who they were, what they believed, and how they acted. This is a book of value and interest for scholars and students, clergy and laity alike." -Roland Mushat Frye, University of Pennsylvania "A very persuasive...most interesting book...stuffed with quotations from Puritan sources, almost to the point of making it a mini-anthology." -Publishers Weekly "With Worldly Saints, Christians of all persuasions have a tool that provides ready access to the vast treasures of Puritan thought." -Christianity Today "Ryken writes with a vigor and enthusiasm that makes delightful reading-never a dull moment." -Fides et Historia "Worldly Saints provides a valuable picture of Puritan life and values. It should be useful for general readers as well as for students of history and literature." -Christianity and Literature |
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... Church of England. Later the word gained the further, political connotation of being against the Stuart monarchy and for some sort of republicanism; its primary reference, however, was still to what was seen as an odd, furious, and ugly ...
... church renewal. To be sure, “renewal” was not a word that they used; they spoke only of “reformation” and “reform,” which words suggest to our twentieth-century minds a concern that is limited to the externals of the church's orthodoxy ...
... churches of congregational type that multiplied in the mid-seventeenth century. The Puritans' concern for spiritual awakening ... church life, which were unquestionably and abidingly right, and from their standards for clergy, which were ...
... churches but bought them for private use in their homes.26 In a treatise stating the usual objections to musical instruments in church, John Cotton added that he did not “forbid the private use of any instrument of music.”27 Oliver ...
... church and government, and dissidents were punished for their dissent. Compared with other religious groups in England, Puritan tolerance receives high marks. W. K. Jordan, whose books on the development of religious toleration in ...
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Family | |
Puritan Preaching | |
Church and Worship | |
The Bible | |
Education | |
Social Action | |
Some Puritan | |
What the Puritans Did Best | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Copyright | |