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| Named Person: | John Bunyan; John Bunyan; John Bunyan |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Davies |
| ISBN: | 0199242402 9780199242405 |
| OCLC Number: | 48662474 |
| Description: | ix, 393 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Davies. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Bunyan, John, -- 1628-1688 -- Religion.
- Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Covenant theology -- History of doctrines -- 17th century.
- Christian literature, English -- History and criticism.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 17th century.
- Bunyan, John, -- 1628-1688 -- Technique.
- Covenant theology in literature.
- Theologie.
- Verteltheorie.
- Bunyan, John.
- Erzähltechnik.

