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.

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

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.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

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 understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.