Graceful Reading offers a new way of understanding Bunyan's theology and his narrative art, examining and reassessing the complex and interdependent relationship between them. Michael Davies begins by proposing that Bunyan's theology is far from...
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Graceful Reading offers a new way of understanding Bunyan's theology and his narrative art, examining and reassessing the complex and interdependent relationship between them. Michael Davies begins by proposing that Bunyan's theology is far from obsessed with the forbidding Calvinist doctrine of predestination and its corollary tendency towards painful introspection. Bunyan's is, rather, a comfortable doctrine, in which the believer is encouraged to accept salvation throughthe far more assuring terms of Bunyan's covenant theology - those of faith and grace. The book then reassesses how Bunyan'
Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-383) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note on Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Comfortable Doctrine: John Bunyan's Theology of Grace; 2. Bunyan's Exceeding Maze: Doctoring and Doctrine in Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; 3. Of Things Seen and Unseen: Graceful Reading and Narrative Practice in Grace Abounding; 4. Into an Allegory: Method, Metaphor, and the Apology of The Pilgrim's Progress; 5. 'Sweet Fiction and Sweet Truth': Theology and Narrative in The Pilgrim's Progress; 6. First Among Sequels: John Bunyan's Other Allegories; Postscript: The Legacy of The Pilgrim's Progress
