The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Twelve Puritans


Variation on a theme here. All these Puritans were born in 1600 or thereabouts. It was a good year. Which one is shown above? Let me know.

Tobias Crisp 1600-1643
Jeremiah Burroughs 1600-1646
John Jackson 1600-1648
Sidrach Simpson 1600-1655
Richard Vines 1600-1656
Obadiah Sedgwick 1600-1658
Samuel Rutherford 1600-1660
Anthony Burgess c1600-c1664
Edmund Calamy The Elder 1600-1666
Edward Heyrick 1600-1667
William Bridge 1600-1670
Thomas Goodwin 1600-1679

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where would you be without me to do your proof reading for you?
One of those years is wrong.

Gary Brady said...

There, corrected! I don't want to make there abouts stretch too far. And the pictured Puritan?

Anonymous said...

If you want to make it even more difficult, you could try renaming your image file.

Gary Brady said...

And I avoided using his name as a tag! I'm sure no-one will cheat (half of them won't think of it anyway).