On Family Life
What did the Puritans think about family life? Kim of The Upward Call writes, “When people think of Puritans in conjunction with marriage and family, it is often assumed that they had very harsh, utilitarian ideas about marriage and family.” But that’s not quite right.
On Biblical Counseling
“The Puritans had sophisticated diagnostic casebooks containing scores and even hundreds of different personal problems and spiritual conditions. … Puritans were true physicians of the soul. Their study of the Scripture and the heart led them to make fine distinctions between conditions and to classify many types and sub-types of problems that required different treatments.” —Puritan Resources for Biblical Counseling by Tim Keller. (CCEF) HT: Justin Taylor