John Bunyan : Conventicle and Parnassus : tercentenary essays
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John Bunyan : Conventicle and Parnassus : tercentenary essays
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
Available at 21 libraries
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"Selected bibliography": p. [265]-270
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
To mark the tercentenary of the death of John Bunyan, this volume brings together twelve essays treating aspects of his life, thought and writing from a 20th century perspective. The essays explore the diversity of Bunyan's achievement in his homiletic, doctrinal, controversial and autobiographical works as well as in the better-known allegories. They include historical and contextual discussions of Bunyan's relationship with puritanism, nonconformity, the press and Restoration culture and style, explications of his Christian teaching, doctrine and Biblical indebtness, critical analyses of his literary technique and fictional method and a survey of the history of Bunyan's reputation.
Table of Contents
- The fellowship of believers - Bunyan and puritanism
- conscience, liberty and the spirit - Bunyan and nonconformity
- grace, holiness and the pursuit of happiness - Bunyan and Restoration latitudinarianism
- "When at the first I took my pen in hand" - Bunyan and the book
- plain and simple - Bunyan and style
- "To be a pilgrim" - Bunyan and the Christian life
- fishing in other men's waters - Bunyan and the theologians
- "Thou must live upon my word" - Bunyan and the Bible
- spiritual discerning - Bunyan and the mysteries of the divine will
- "With the eyes of my understanding" - Bunyan, experience and Acts of Interpretation
- glossing and glozing - Bunyan and allegory
- "Of him thousands daily sing and talk" - Bunyan and his reputation.
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