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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... mind), the Puritans practiced meditation, discursive and systematic, on the whole range of biblical truth as they ... minds, uncontrolled affections, and unstable wills when it comes to serving God, and who again and again find ourselves ...
... minds a concern that is limited to the externals of the church's orthodoxy, order, worship forms, and disciplinary code. But when the Puritans preached, published, and prayed for “reformation,” they had in mind, not indeed less than ...
... mind to the possibility that we have been seriously misled regarding the Puritans: We must picture these Puritans as the very opposite of those who bear that name today.6 Very few of the so-called “Puritans” were “Puritanical” in the ...
... mind” or “temperament” or “spirit.” The purpose of this overview is to provide a landscape that the remaining chapters will fill in with details. The opening chapter states my “thesis”; the rest of the book is documentation. “Everybody.
... mind in spiritual matters.109 Richard Rogers recorded in his diary the “sweet conference I have had... with Newman and Mr. Culverwel.”110 John Winthrop similarly recorded a “conference with a Christian friend or two,” adding that “God ...
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Marriage and | |
Money | |
Family | |
Puritan Preaching | |
Church and Worship | |
The Bible | |
Education | |
Social Action | |
Some Puritan | |
What the Puritans Did Best | |
Notes | |