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The Oxford handbook of John Bunyan
This Handbook brings together thirty-eight original essays on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. The chapters span Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, 'The Pilgrim's Progress'.
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The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan
John Bunyan was a major figure in seventeenth-century Puritan literature, and one deeply embroiled in the religious upheavals of his times. This Companion considers all his major texts, including The Pilgrim's Progress and his autobiography Grace Abounding. The essays, by leading Bunyan scholars, place these and his other works in the context of seventeenth-century history and literature. They discuss such key issues as the publication of dissenting works, the history of the book, gender, the relationship between literature and religion, between literature and early modern radicalism, and the reception of seventeenth-century texts. Other chapters assess Bunyan's importance for the development of allegory, life-writing, the early novel and children's literature. This Companion provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to an author with an assured and central place in English literature.
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The Cambridge companion to Bunyan
\"John Bunyan was a major figure in seventeenth-century Puritan literature, and one deeply embroiled in the religious upheavals of his times. This Companion considers all his major texts, including The Pilgrim's Progress and his autobiography Grace Abounding. The essays, by leading Bunyan scholars, place these and his other works in the context of seventeenth-century history and literature. They discuss such key issues as the publication of dissenting works, the history of the book, gender, the relationship between literature and religion, between literature and early modern radicalism, and the reception of seventeenth-century texts. Other chapters assess Bunyan's importance for the development of allegory, life-writing, the early novel and children's literature. This Companion provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to an author with an assured and central place in English literature\"--Provided by publisher.
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Gifts and graces : prayer, poetry, and polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan
Prayer divided seventeenth-century England. Anglican Conformists such as Lancelot Andrewes and Jeremy Taylor upheld set forms of prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, a book designed to unite the nation in worship. Puritan Reformers and Dissenters such as John Milton and John Bunyan rejected the prayer book and advocated for extemporaneous or free prayer. In 1645, the mainly Puritan Long Parliament proscribed the Book of Common Prayer and dismantled the Anglican Church in the midst of civil war. This led Anglican poets and liturgists to defend their tradition with energy and erudition in print. In 1662, with monarchy restored, the mainly Anglican Cavalier Parliament reinstated the Church and its prayer book to impose religious uniformity. This galvanized English Nonconformity and Dissent and gave rise to a vibrant literary counter-tradition.
Addressing this fascinating history, David Gay examines competing claims to spiritual gifts and graces in polemical texts and their influence on prayer and poetry. Amid the contention of differing voices, the disputed connection of poetry and prayer, imagination and religion, emerges as a central tension in early modern literature and culture.
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THREE SHINING ONES AT THE CROSS IN THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: ANGELS, TRINITY, OR CHURCH?
Christian reaching the cross is an iconic scene in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678). Freed from his burden, Christian is assured of salvation by Jesus's atoning work and receives gifts from three shining ones. Opinion has been divided about who these shining ones are. This study sets out and assesses the arguments that have been given for seeing the shining ones as angels or as Trinity. A third way is proposed that sees the shining ones as church by exploiting the presumption of an allowable range of interpretation in handling the allegory. This has the advantage of refuting individualist readings of the Christian life, while affirming the church's gospel ministry of assuring Christians of their salvation by God's grace with biblical truth.Keywords: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, shining ones, angels, Trinity, church, reception, illustration
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EDITORIAL
Nathan Sherman's article, 'The Wapping Baptists: The Varied Location of a Unified People', won the 2022 International John Bunyan Society Roger E Pooley Early Career Essay Prize, and we are delighted to include it in this issue. After three years as Associate and then Managing Editor of Bunyan Studies, Robert W. Daniel is stepping down from the role, and from the International John Bunyan Society Committee where he was General Secretary from 2019 to 2022. After taking early retirement from Northumbria University due to ill health last year, David Walker has now also stepped down from the Bunyan Studies Editorial Team. During David's time as an Editor, the journal was generously supported by the Research Committee of the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Arts, Design, and Social Sciences at Northumbria.
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IS AMERICA A CREEDAL NATION?
Following St. Isidore of Seville's mission to the Visigoths and St. Gregory of Tours's mission to the Merovingians in the sixth century, the Catholic Church upheld the Davidic Kingdom as the model for Western polity after the collapse of Roman Empire. Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the 12th of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, 19th century Gothic churches, and the music of Elgar. Huck's successors are the cowboy who rids the town of evildoers and then rides off into the sunset, the gunslinger with a heart of gold, the private detective who avenges wrongdoing and then fades into the urban nightscape, the loner with authority problems: By contrast, we have adoptedasour national story the history of Israel, in the same way that evangelical Christians identify the souls journey to salvation with the journey of the Children of Israel to the Promised Land.
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Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [...]while Calloway's opening assertion specifies the work of human poets' (italics mine), the decision to clarify genus becomes telling as she develops important, suggestive readings of non-human acts and voices in these poetic worlds, from Vaughan's fish and raven in 'Providence' (1655) to the misunderstood spider of The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II (p. 108; pp. 201-3). Calloway reinvokes Henry More's positivistic outlook in her analysis of Denham, who she argues emphasises the human ability 'to extend and participate in God's creativity'. Milton's depiction of postlapsarian reason, she argues, connects with the overall \"attempt\" of the poem, where \"argument\" means \"narrative\" and the book of nature 1s read not \"to establish God's power and wisdom\" but to reveal
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