A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church
Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world.

In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan’s significance as a preacher—a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It was while confined that he wrote his most famous works. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain’s most influential writers.
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A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church
Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world.

In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan’s significance as a preacher—a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It was while confined that he wrote his most famous works. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain’s most influential writers.
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A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church

A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church

by Christopher Hill
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church

A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church

by Christopher Hill

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Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world.

In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan’s significance as a preacher—a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It was while confined that he wrote his most famous works. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain’s most influential writers.

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ISBN-13: 9781784786861
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 01/31/2017
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Christopher Hill (1912–2003), born in York, was a historian and academic specializing in seventeenth-century English history. As a young man he witnessed the growth of the Nazi party firsthand during a prolonged holiday in Germany, an experience he later said contributed to the radicalization of his politics. He was master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, his alma mater, from 1965 to 1978. His celebrated and influential works include Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution; The World Turned Upside Down; and A Turbulent, Seditious and Fractious People: John Bunyan and His Church.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xiii

Bunyan's Writings xv

Some Dates xix

I Bunyan's England: 1628-1688 1

1 The English Revolution 3

2 The Rich, the Poor, and the Middling Sort 16

3 Popular Literature 28

II From Elstow to Newport Pagnell and Back 39

4 The Bunyans 41

5 In the Army 45

Newport Pagnell-Paul Hobson - Back to Elstow

III Grace Abounding and the 1650s 61

6 Grace A bounding to the Chief of Sinners 63

Spiritual Autobiography-The Battle of the Texts-The Lost Inheritance

7 Ranters and Quakers 75

8 Early Writings 85

Anti-Quaker Pamphlet, 1656-1617-Dives and Lazarus 85

9 Bunyan and the Bedford Congregation 90

The Congregation - Millenarianism

IV Holding On 101

10 Preaching and Imprisonment 103

11 Adapting to the Restoration 111

'Normality' Restored-In Jail

12 The Tinker and the Latitudinarians 125

The Subversive Bible-Bunyan and Edward Fowler-Tinkers, Education, and Literature

13 The Church after the Restoration 144

Bunyan and his Congregation-Millenarianism again

V Bunyan's Theology 155

14 Some Influences 157

Luther and Foxe-Arthur Dent (d. 1607)-Lewis Bayly (d. 1631)-Richard Bernard (1567-1641)-William Dell (?1607-1669)-John Owen (1616-1683)-The Bible

15 Covenant Theology 170

The Protestant Heritage-The Will for the Deed-The Metaphors of Bunyan's Covenant Theology 170

16 Social Uses of Hell-fire 183

17 Antinomianism 188

VI Bunyan's Major Creative Period: 1678-1686 195

18 The Pilgrim's Progress 197

The Allegory and its Antecedents-Sweating Work-From this World to That Which is to Come-Progress, Circular, Linear, and Psychological-Satire and Vanity Fair-Christian's Wife and Children

19 The Life and Death of Mr, Badman 231

20 The Holy War 240

Allegory and Epic-Sources for the Epic- The Holy War and Bedford Corporation

21 Music, Singing, and Poetry 260

Music-Poems

22 Self-denial and Humility 275

Self-denial-Songs in The Pilgrims Progress

VII Last Years, Dangerous Years 281

23 Bunyan's Printers 283

24 The Palace Beautiful 292

Baptism and the Church-Bunyan and the Woman Question - 'Prayerless Professors'

25 Kings and Antichrist: Seeming Delays 310

26 Posthumous Writings: 'Who bid the boar come here?' 323

VIII Life after Death: 1688 Onwards 335

27 Bunyan and Dissent 337

28 Bunyan and Popular Culture 348

Between Two Cultures-Prose and Verse-Bunyan and Milton

29 Bunyan and the World 367

Bunyan the Man-Bunyan's Contemporary Reputation-'Behold it was a Dream'

Appendix: The Radicalism of the New Model Army and the Existence of the Ranters 381

Index 383

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