Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were

by Leland Ryken

Publisher:

Zondervan Academic

, 2010

Overview

Dr. Ryken’s presentation of the Puritan view and style of life is perceptive and accurate. He allows the Puritans to speak for themselves on topics ranging from ‘Church and Worship’ to ‘Money’ and ‘Marriage and Sex.’ Ryken’s Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity.

Key Features

• Recovers the Christian wisdom of the Puritans for today
• Corrects an almost universal misunderstanding of what the Puritans really stood for
• Incorporates a wealth of choice Puritan quotations and of apt comments by leading historians of the Puritan movement

Contents

• What Were the Original Puritans Like?
• Work
• Marriage and Sex
• Money
• Family
• Puritan Preaching
• Church and Worship
• The Bible
• Education
• Social Action
• Learning From Negative Example: Some Puritan Faults

Praise for Worldly Saints

Ryken’s Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity.

Harry Stout, Yale University

...the typical Puritans were not wild men, fierce and freaky, religious fanatics and social extremists, but sober, conscientious, and cultured citizens, persons of principle, determined and disciplined excelling in the domestic virtues, and with no obvious shortcomings save a tendency to run to words when saying anything important, whether to God or to a man. At last the record has been put straight.

J.I. Packer, Regent College

Worldly Saints provides a revealing treasury of primary and secondary evidence for understanding the Puritans, who they were, what they believed, and how they acted. This is a book of value and interest for scholars and students, clergy and laity alike.

Roland Mushat Frye, University of Pennsylvania

Product Details

• Title: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
• Author: Leland Ryken
• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Pages: 300
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780310874287, 0310874289
• Resource ID: LLS:9780310874287
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:51:56Z

About Leland Ryken

Leland Ryken (PhD, University of Oregon) served as professor of English at Wheaton College for more than 43 years. He has authored or edited more than three dozen books, including The Word of God in English, The Complete Literary Guide to the Bible, The ESV Literary Study Bible, and A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible. He is a frequent speaker at the Evangelical Theological Society and served as literary stylist for the English Standard Version.