Pilgrim's Progress - Revision history

Scartho77: Moving the quote about youth and age, which I uploaded a few minutes ago, to the Living as a Christian webpage.

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Moving the quote about youth and age, which I uploaded a few minutes ago, to the Living as a Christian webpage.

Scartho77: Added quote from Gaius Mine Host and Mr Honest, about youth and age.

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Added quote from Gaius Mine Host and Mr Honest, about youth and age.

Scartho77: Added quote about "Madam Bubble, or this vain world".

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Added quote about "Madam Bubble, or this vain world".

Scartho77: Just added a wikipedia link for George Offor, the editor.

2017-06-17T14:26:11Z

Just added a wikipedia link for George Offor, the editor.

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Scartho77: Added section Extract-Apollyon (with comment at the Discussion page).

2017-06-15T15:47:15Z

Added section Extract-Apollyon (with comment at the Discussion page).

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 ==Quotes==
 [https://archive.org/details/worksofjohnbunya03buny Bunyan J "Pilgrim's Progress", in Offor G "Works of John Bunyan", vol3, p238f.]
 : "Madam Bubble, or this vain world....  She will promise to some crowns and kingdoms, if they will but take her advice; yet many has she brought to the halter, and ten thousand times more to hell."

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 ==Quotes==
 [https://archive.org/details/worksofjohnbunya03buny Bunyan J "Pilgrim's Progress", in Offor G "Works of John Bunyan", vol3, p238f.]
 : "Madam Bubble, or this vain world....  She will promise to some crowns and kingdoms, if they will but take her advice; yet many has she brought to the halter, and ten thousand times more to hell."

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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
		+	[https://archive.org/details/worksofjohnbunya03buny Bunyan J "Pilgrim's Progress", in Offor G "Works of John Bunyan", vol3, p238f.]
		+	: "Madam Bubble, or this vain world.... She will promise to some crowns and kingdoms, if they will but take her advice; yet many has she brought to the halter, and ten thousand times more to hell."

	==References==		==References==

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 with that Apoll&shy;yon spread forth his dragon's wings, and sped him
 away, that Christian for a season saw him no more.  <span style="font-size:80%;">Ja. iv. 7.</span>
-<ref>Offor G (1859), "The works of John Bunyan", Vol 3, Blackie & Son.  For download from archive.org .
+<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Offor Offor G] (1859), "The works of John Bunyan", Vol 3, Blackie & Son.  For download from archive.org .
 There is also a version with seventeenth century spelling, that is, Bunyan J (1847), "Pilgrim's Progress", Ed Offor G, Hanserd Knollys Society.</ref>

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 The book was the basis of an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, premiered in 1951.
 ==Extract&mdash;Apollyon==
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 <ref>Offor G (1859), "The works of John Bunyan", Vol 3, Blackie & Son.  For download from archive.org .
 There is also a version with seventeenth century spelling, that is, Bunyan J (1847), "Pilgrim's Progress", Ed Offor G, Hanserd Knollys Society.</ref>
 ==Quotes==
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
 ==Links==
 {{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Christian literature]]
 [[Category:Christian literature]]

← Older revision	Revision as of 16:29, 5 September 2009
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	+	{{Infobox_Contents \|
	+	topic_name = Pilgrim's Progress \|
	+	subtopics = [[Text:Pilgrim's Progress\|The text of Pilgrim's Progress]]
	+	* [[John Bunyan]]
	+	* [[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)]] \|
	+	opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} \|
	+	}}

	+	'''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come''' is an allegorical novel by [[John Bunyan]]. It was first published 1678.
	+
	+	Bunyan wrote the book while imprisoned in 1675 for violations of the Conventicle Act which punished people for conducting unauthorised religious services outside of the [[Church of England]]. An expanded edition, with additions written after Bunyan was freed, appeared in 1679.
	+
	+	The allegory tells of Christian, an Everyman character who must make his way from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City of Zion. During his travel, he must make his way past hazards such as the ''Slough of Despond'', temptations like ''Vanity Fair'', and foes like the ''Giant Despair''. Due to the long popularity of this devotional book, many of these phrases have become proverbial in English. In a second book, his wife and children, who once denounced his ideas, follow his path to the Celestial City.
	+
	+	The allegory of this book has antecedents in a large number of Christian devotional works that speak of the soul's path to Heaven, from the ''Lyke-Wake Dirge'' forwards. Bunyan's allegory stands out above his predecessors because of his simple and effective, if somewhat naïve, prose style, steeped in [[Bible\|Biblical]] texts and cadences. He confesses his own naïveté in the verse prologue to the book:
	+
	+	: ''. . . I did not think
	+	: ''To shew to all the World my Pen and Ink''
	+	: ''In such a mode; I only thought to make''
	+	: ''I knew not what: nor did I undertake''
	+	: ''Thereby to please my Neighbour; no not I;''
	+	: ''I did it mine own self to gratifie.''
	+
	+	Its explicitly Protestant theology also made it much more popular than its predecessors. Finally, Bunyan's gifts and plain style breathe life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions Christian encounters and converses with on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication, it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.
	+
	+	The book was the basis of an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, premiered in 1951.
	+
	+	==Quotes==
	+
	+	==Links==
	+
	+
	+	{{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Christian literature]]
	+
	+	[[Category:Christian literature]]

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−	~~{{Infobox_Contents \|~~
−	~~topic_name = Pilgrim's Progress \|~~
−	~~subtopics = [[Text:Pilgrim's Progress\|The text of Pilgrim's Progress]]~~
−	* [[John Bunyan]]
−	* [[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)]] \|
−	~~opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} \|~~
−	}}

−	~~'''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come''' is an allegorical novel by [[John Bunyan]]. It was first published 1678.~~
−
−	Bunyan wrote the book while imprisoned in 1675 for violations of the Conventicle Act which punished people for conducting unauthorised religious services outside of the [[Church of England]]. An expanded edition, with additions written after Bunyan was freed, appeared in 1679.
−
−	The allegory tells of Christian, an Everyman character who must make his way from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City of Zion. During his travel, he must make his way past hazards such as the ''Slough of Despond'', temptations like ''Vanity Fair'', and foes like the ''Giant Despair''. Due to the long popularity of this devotional book, many of these phrases have become proverbial in English. In a second book, his wife and children, who once denounced his ideas, follow his path to the Celestial City.
−
−	The allegory of this book has antecedents in a large number of Christian devotional works that speak of the soul's path to Heaven, from the ''Lyke-Wake Dirge'' forwards. Bunyan's allegory stands out above his predecessors because of his simple and effective, if somewhat naïve, prose style, steeped in [[Bible\|Biblical]] texts and cadences. He confesses his own naïveté in the verse prologue to the book:
−
−	~~: ''. . . I did not think~~
−	~~: ''To shew to all the World my Pen and Ink''~~
−	~~: ''In such a mode; I only thought to make''~~
−	~~: ''I knew not what: nor did I undertake''~~
−	~~: ''Thereby to please my Neighbour; no not I;''~~
−	~~: ''I did it mine own self to gratifie.''~~
−
−	Its explicitly Protestant theology also made it much more popular than its predecessors. Finally, Bunyan's gifts and plain style breathe life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions Christian encounters and converses with on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication, it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.
−
−	~~The book was the basis of an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, premiered in 1951.~~
−
−	~~==Quotes==~~
−
−	~~==Links==~~
−
−
−	~~{{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Christian literature]]~~
−
−	~~[[Category:Christian literature]]~~

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 {{Infobox_Contents |
 topic_name = Pilgrim's Progress |
-subtopics = [[Text:Pilgrim's Progress|The text of Pilgrim's Progress]
+subtopics = [[Text:Pilgrim's Progress|The text of Pilgrim's Progress]]
 * [[John Bunyan]]
 * [[The Pilgrim's Progress (opera)]] |