Notes
CHAPTER FOUR:
HOT TUB RELIGION
1. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A. Elwell (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1984), p. 588, emphasis added.
2. The Screwtape Letters (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942), p. 112.
3. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, III.x.
4. Mere Christianity (London: Collins, Fontana Books, 1955), p. 116.
5. The Pilgrim’s Progress (London: Oxford University Press, O.S.A. series, 1945), p. 370.
6. Institutes of the Christian Religion, III.ix.1.
7. Calvin’s Doctrine of the Christian Life (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959), p. 130.
8. Reprints of The Saints’ Everlasting Rest (drastically abridged) were published by Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, 1978) and by The Billy Graham Center in 1994. The full text is in volume 3 of Baxter’s Practical Works (Morgan, Penn.: Soli Deo Gloria, 1990).
9. Title of a study of latter-day British culture by Garth Lean (London: Blandford Press, 1965).
CHAPTER FIVE:
A CHRISTIAN STYLE OF LIFE
1. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Viking Press, 1985).
2. On the Christian view of work, see Carl F. H. Henry, Aspects of Christian Ethics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964), pp. 37-71; Leland Ryken, Work and Leisure in Christian Perspective (Portland, Ore.: Multnomah, 1987).
3. See John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Portland, Ore.: Multnomah, 1986); Ryken, Work and Leisure, pp. 191ff.
4. Ryken, Work and Leisure, p. 187, citing Gibbs, “Ritual, Play and Transcendent Mystery,” paper presented to the American Academy of Religion, Midwestern Sectional Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 17 February 1973, p. 4. Ryken’s book, along with R. K. Johnston’s The Christian at Play (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-element in Culture (1950; repr. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), and Josef Pieper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture, trans. Alexander Dru (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952) are basic for the Christian study of leisure.
5. Cranmer’s wording is retained in the catechism in the statutory Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England; I am quoting here from the 1962 Canadian revision, Book of Common Prayer (Toronto: Anglican Book Center, 1962), p. 548.
6. “Morning Prayer,” in the Book of Common Prayer, p. 11.
7. Ryken, Work and Leisure, p. 38.
8. See Henri Blocher, In the Beginning, trans. David G. Preston (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1984), for an orientation to this question and a compelling argument for the third of these alternatives.
9. See John Piper, The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God (Portland, Ore.: Multnomah, 1991).
10. “Doctor Jazz,” by Jelly-Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (Victor Records, 1926; various reissues).
11. Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1989), pp. 402-403.
CHAPTER SIX:
GUIDANCE
1. Joseph Bayly et al., Essays on Guidance (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1968), Preface.
2. Russ Johnston, How to Know the Will of God (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1971), p. 5.
3. Garry Friesen, Decision Making and the Will of God (Portland, Ore.: Multnomah, 1981), p. 18.
4. From “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” by Robert Robinson.
CHAPTER EIGHT:
SCRIPTURE AND SANCTIFICATION
1. John Owen, Works, ed. W. Goold (London: Banner of Truth, 1966), III, p. 386.
2. James P. Boyce, “Sanctification,” in the Abstract of Systematic Theology (1887, repr. by E. C. Reisinger, n.d.), pp. 412-415.
3. J. C. Ryle, Holiness (Ipswich, UK: William Hunt, 1879), p. xv.
4. Boyce, Abstract, pp. 418ff.
5. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections, ed. J. M. Houston (Portland, Ore.: Multnomah, 1984), p. xxxii.
CHAPTER NINE:
THE TRANSFORMATION TRACK
1. J. C. Ryle, Holiness, Centenary Edition (Welwyn, UK: Evangelical Press, 1979), pp. 317, 460.
CHAPTER TEN:
POOR HEALTH
1. Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962), ad loc.