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

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 an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.

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.

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

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.

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