John Bunyan
eBook - ePub

John Bunyan

A Biography of the Author of Pilgrim's Progress

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

John Bunyan

A Biography of the Author of Pilgrim's Progress

About this book

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience.

The author of The Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most influential books in English literature, had little formal education. Born the son of a tinker, John Bunyan was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. He was allowed to go to school for a few years and purchase a few books, but his apprenticeship in the family business took precedence.  Bunyan experienced his first sorrow in adolescence, when both his mother and sister died. It wasn't his last.  Revolutions and wars were all around him, and he was jailed twice for preaching the Gospel. Yet amidst repeated imprisonments, civil war, and violent persecution, Bunyan crafted The Pilgrim's Progress, a testament unlike any other to the triumph of the human spirit.  His simple cadences transformed the language, and his memorable characters became familiar to millions.  Bunyan became a public figure, a captivating speaker, and above all, a man known for his unrelenting trust in God.

 

 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Prologue: The Great Gathering
  8. 1. Legacy and Memory
  9. 2. Times That Tried Men’s Souls
  10. 3. A Parish in the Hundred
  11. 4. A Goodly Heritage
  12. 5. The Tinker of Elstow
  13. 6. “The Glad Reason of Life”
  14. 7. Scholarship of the Slenderest Kind
  15. 8. Disquieting Intimations
  16. 9. Rumors of War
  17. 10. A Nameless Love
  18. 11. The Unexpected Dowry
  19. 12. “A Path That Skirted Madness”
  20. 13. The Coming of Evangelist
  21. 14. A Mender of Souls
  22. 15. “No Ordinary Difficulties”
  23. 16. Prisoner of Conscience
  24. 17. “The Fortunate Limits of Imagination”
  25. 18. “Fancies That Lit the Prison Cell”:        The First Part of The Pilgrim’s Progress
  26. 19. Bunyan’s Immortal Story:       The Second Part of The Pilgrim’s Progress
  27. 20. “Great Extremes”
  28. 21. The House on Snow Hill
  29. Epilogue: Relics
  30. Appendix: A Bunyan Timeline
  31. Notes
  32. Select Bibliography
  33. Acknowledgments
  34. About the Author