William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

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

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 Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

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