John Bunyan

This classic of Christian autobiography John Bunyan is timeless in its wisdom, wherein the author wrestles with his convictions of belief in the divine. For centuries a leading source on the Puritanical movement and its adherents, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners remains a regularly consulted text by theologians, religious historians and the general reader. The title itself is a composite reference to two famous Biblical passages: Romans 5:20 and Timothy 1:15. As well as discussing the process through which he found his Christian faith, Bunyan is forthright about the personal struggles he had with belief. Hardship was a reality for Bunyan, who drafted this book while incarcerated for preaching without a proper license. For Bunyan the possibility of salvation by the Lord was a constant preoccupation, and a motivation for authoring multiple works on faith and leading the life he led.

This classic of Christian autobiography John Bunyan is timeless in its wisdom, wherein the author wrestles with his convictions of belief in the divine. For centuries a leading source on the Puritanical movement and its adherents, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners remains a regularly consulted text by theologians, religious historians and the general reader. The title itself is a composite reference to two famous Biblical passages: Romans 5:20 and Timothy 1:15. As well as discussing the process through which he found his Christian faith, Bunyan is forthright about the personal struggles he had with belief. Hardship was a reality for Bunyan, who drafted this book while incarcerated for preaching without a proper license. For Bunyan the possibility of salvation by the Lord was a constant preoccupation, and a motivation for authoring multiple works on faith and leading the life he led.

The only book that has sold more than Pilgrim's Progress is the Bible. Now this classic book comes to you in the form of a Jumbo Large Print Word Search Book. Contains the complete story and word search puzzles to match. On the left hand page there is the story and on the right a puzzle that matches. You can read the book, and then go back and do the puzzles, or do them as you read. Pilgrim's Progress has been translated into more than 200 languages and since it was first published in 1678 it has never been out of print. Our traditional word search is based on this classic Christian novel. This large print book contains the complete first novel of Pilgrim's Progress and over 200 word search puzzles based on each page. I am sure you will enjoy this classic as a word search puzzle book.

The Pilgrim's Progress is an engaging allegory of the Christian Life which has instructed and entertained countless adults and children over the past three hundred years. As befitting a highly imaginative work, its style is simple and accessible. This edition, complete and unabridged, containing Parts I and II, makes an ideal gift." This wonderful work is one of the few books which may be read over repeatedly at different times, and each time with a new and a different pleasure. I read it once as a theologian-- and let me assure you, that there is great theological acumen in the work -- once with devotional feelings -- and once as a poet. I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colours."--Samuel Taylor Coleridge." The Pilgrim's Progress is the ultimate English classic, a book that has been continuously in print, from its first publication to the present day, in an extraordinary number of editions. There's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, CS Lewis, John Steinbeck and even Enid Blyton."--Robert McCrum (The Guardian), in placing The Pilgrim's Progress at the top of his list of the best novels in English.

The Pilgrim's Progress is an engaging allegory of the Christian Life which has instructed and entertained countless adults and children over the past three hundred years. As befitting a highly imaginative work, its style is simple and accessible. This edition, complete and unabridged, containing Parts I and II, makes an ideal gift." This wonderful work is one of the few books which may be read over repeatedly at different times, and each time with a new and a different pleasure. I read it once as a theologian-- and let me assure you, that there is great theological acumen in the work -- once with devotional feelings -- and once as a poet. I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colours."--Samuel Taylor Coleridge." The Pilgrim's Progress is the ultimate English classic, a book that has been continuously in print, from its first publication to the present day, in an extraordinary number of editions. There's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, CS Lewis, John Steinbeck and even Enid Blyton."--Robert McCrum, in placing The Pilgrim's Progress at the top of his list of the best novels in English.

Over three hundred years have passed since the original publication of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, but the story of Christian's struggle to avoid temptation and remain hopeful continues to resonate today. This 2-in-1 edition features an updated-language version of John Bunyan's classic allegory, as well as Harold Myra's brand-new, 40-day devotional. You'll see yourself in the title character and his journey, as Christian--the Pilgrim--learns to draw strength from the promises of God and discovers the depth of the love of Christ. The Pilgrim's Progress will show you the immense delight that comes from living faithfully with the Lord.

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JOHN BUNYAN 1628-1888] was C. H. Spurgeon's favorite author and his legendary work, THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, is the most popular book ever written apart from Holy Scripture. Spurgeon loved reading and re-reading this work, claiming to have read it over 100 times, many times with his wife reading it to him in afternoon relaxation and meditation. He often quoted Bunyan in his sermons declaring, "Though his writings are charmingly full of poetry, yet he cannot give us his Pilgrim's Progress, that sweetest of all prose poems, without continually making us feel and say, 'Why, this man is a living Bible ' Prick him anywhere, his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. He cannot speak without quoting a text, for his very soul is FULL of the Word of God." This new edition is special because it contains the editing work of George Offor, who respected Bunyan so much that he always labored with all his might to be sure that Bunyan was permitted to explain Bunyan. This new edition has the marginal notes so apprciated down the years. These notes were drawn from Bunyan's other writings where he himself explains the meaning of many of the incidents and images scattered throughout Pilgrim's Progress.

Published the year after his 'Pilgrim's Progress', in 1679, Bunyan's 'Treatise on the Fear of God' takes a widely misunderstood and neglected theme, wipes off the grime of confusion, and lets it sparkle. And sparkle really is the word: where most assume that the fear of God must be the gloomy theological equivalent of eating up your greens, Bunyan shows what a delightful and helpful subject it is. From the Foreword by Michael Reeves

John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher. He was a member of the Parliamentary army in the first stages of the English Civil War and later followed his father's profession of tinker. From 1661 through 1672, he was imprisoned for preaching without a license. The Pilgrim's Progress (1678 and 1684) is his best-known work. Part One was started while he was in prison and became an immediate success upon publication. Unauthorized sequels helped motivate Bunyan to prepare his own second part several years later. The Pilgrim's Progress is the single most successful Christian book after the Bible itself. In simple and straightforward prose, Bunyan presents an allegory of his own low-church, Protestant theology. Its contributions to our cultural heritage include ideas and names such as the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and muckraking. This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).

Description by Wikipedia: "Cited as the first novel written in English." 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 forward. Bunyan's allegory stands out above his predecessors because of his simple and effective prose style, steeped in Biblical texts and cadences. He confesses his own na vet 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." Bunyan's inspiration? Due to many similarities - some more definite than others - it could be argued that he had access to Dante's Commedia. The Pilgrim's Progress may therefore be a distillation of the entire 'pilgrimage' that the 14th Century Italian penned. Because of the widespread longtime popularity of The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's hazards - whether originally from Bunyan or borrowed by him from the Bible-the "Slough of Despond", the "Hill Difficulty", "Valley of the Shadow of Death", "Doubting Castle", and the "Enchanted Ground", his temptations (the wares of "Vanity Fair" and the pleasantness of "By-Path Meadow"), his foes ("Apollyon" and "Giant Despair"), and the helpful stopping places he visits (the "House of the Interpreter", the "House Beautiful", the "Delectable Mountains", and the "Land of Beulah") have become commonly used phrases proverbial in English. For example, "One has one's own Slough of Despond to trudge through."