John bunyan quotes through the wilderness
John bunyan quotes through the wilderness series!
AS I: the dreaming narrator of the Pilgrim's Progress is simply John Bunyan, who by the time of the first edition's publication in 1678 is well-known as a writer of religious polemic, his own spiritual autobiography (Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)), and published sermons.
This is his first foray into 'fiction' or the use of 'metaphors'.
John bunyan quotes through the wilderness
There is an element of scriptural borrowing from the self-presentation of the Apostle John at the opening of the book of Revelation, or the prophet Jeremiah, in the first person 'I'. In any case, an association with the prophetic and even apocalyptic fits Bunyan's goal and destination in his allegory, as well as the times in which he lives where fascination with the AntiChrist and commentary on Revelation, in particular, enthuse the godly.
The continued theological debt to the Apostle Paul, as in his autobiographical title from Romans 5:20 and 1 Timothy 1:15, is also indicated in this first pe