The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

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 Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.