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 enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

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.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

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

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

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.