There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

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 oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

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

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.

The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.