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.

Owen and Bible burning

The June Banner of Truth Magazine is fresh out.
Contents:
Efforts for Union of Protestants W J Grier
page 1
News and Comment
page 4
Can a ‘Lonely’ Faith Save? — Cornelis P Venema
page 9
Thoughts on Using Owen on Hebrews Ryan M. McGraw
page 13
The Visitation of the Sick John Calvin
page 17
Freedom of Religion and a Bill of Rights Peter Barnes
page 19
Book Reviews
page 22
Pleading for Prayer C. H. Spurgeon
page 24
Not a Time for Sleeping! R. B. Kuiper
page 32
It includes this quotation from Owen Volume 3 page 192 as paraphrased by Sinclair Ferguson and used in a previous article by Stuart Olyott.
‘He that would utterly separate the Spirit from the word had as good burn his Bible. The bare letter of the New Testament will no more ingenerate faith and obedience in the souls of men, no more constitute a church-state among them who enjoy it, than the letter of the Old Testament doth so at this day as among the Jews, 2 Cor. iii. 6, 8. But blessed be God, who hath knit these things together towards his elect, in the bond of an everlasting covenant! Isa. lix.21.’
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