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Graceful reading :

0199242402

9780199242405

b782775

Graceful reading :

[Book]

theology and narrative in the works of John Bunyan /

Michael Davies.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2002.

ix, 393 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-383) and index.

A comfortable doctrine: John Bunyan's theology of grace -- Bunyan's exceeding maze: Doctoring and doctrine in Grace abounding to the chief of sinners -- Of things seen and unseen: Graceful reading and narrative practice in Grace abounding -- Into an allegory: Method, metaphor, and the apology of The pilgrim's progress -- 'Sweet fiction and sweet truth': Theology and narrative in The pilgrim's progress -- First among sequels: John Bunyan's other allegories -- Postscript: The legacy of The pilgrim's progress.

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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 through the far more assuring terms of Bunyan's covenant theology - those of faith and grace. The book then reassesses how Bunyan's narrative style is informed by this theology. Works such as Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress reveal a profound sensitivity to narrative forms and reading practices, as they aim to inculcate in their readers a self-consciousness about reading itself which is instrumental in the very process of spiritual instruction, in seeing 'things unseen'. This is a study, therefore, which asserts a radically different way of reading Bunyan's writings, both through the terms of seventeenth-century covenant theology, and through some distinctly 'postmodernist' ideas about narrative practice."--Jacket.

Bunyan, John,1628-1688-- Religion.

Bunyan, John,1628-1688-- Technique.

Bunyan, John,1628-1688-- Criticism and interpretation.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688

Bunyan, John,1628-1688

Bunyan, John.

Christian literature, English-- History and criticism.

Christianity and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century.

Covenant theology-- History of doctrines-- 17th century.

Covenant theology in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)-- History-- 17th century.

Christian literature, English.

Christianity and literature.

Covenant theology-- History of doctrines.

Covenant theology in literature.

Erzähltechnik

Narration (Rhetoric)

Religion.

Technique.

Theologie

Theologie.

Verteltheorie.

England.

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Davies, Michael,1970-

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