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Leland Ryken

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born

Pella, Iowa, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.wheaton.edu/english/faculty/ryken.htm

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Religion & Spirituality, Literature & Fiction

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Dr. Ryken has served on the faculty of Wheaton College since 1968. He has published over thirty books and more than one hundred articles and essays, devoting much of his scholarship to Bible translations and the study of the Bible as literature. He served as Literary Chairman for the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible and in 2003 received the distinguished Gutenberg Award for his contributions to education, writing, and the understanding of the Bible.

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Books by Leland Ryken

Average rating: 4.02 · 498 ratings · 93 reviews · 39 distinct works

	The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing 4.18 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Literary Study Bible: ESV by Leland Ryken, Philip Graham Ryken 4.51 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were 3.91 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	How to Read the Bible as Literature: . . . and Get More Out of It by Leland Ryken, Ryken Leland 3.75 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts (Wheaton Literary Series) 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dictionary of Biblical Imagery by Leland Ryken (Editor), James C. Wilhoit (Editor), Tremper Longman III (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ryken's Bible Handbook by Leland Ryken, Philip Graham Ryken 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective (Wheaton Literary Series) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.”
― Leland Ryken, Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective

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