The Holy War: Annotated Companion to The Pilgrim's Progress

The Holy War: Annotated Companion to The Pilgrim's Progress

The Holy War: Annotated Companion to The Pilgrim's Progress

The Holy War: Annotated Companion to The Pilgrim's Progress

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Overview

Four years after John Bunyan released his instantly popular journey allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, he published The Holy War--a battle allegory and companion volume. His first book explores salvation of the individual Christian; the second portrays the battle for sanctification. While Christian struggles with questions about assurance of salvation, the collective Mansoul labors with the challenges of being led by and filled with the Holy Spirit. The Pilgrim's Progress focuses on the individual's struggle against sin; The Holy War portrays the Church in a corporate struggle against systemic evil. Bunyan wrote that The Holy War originates in "the same heart, and head, fingers and pen" as The Pilgrim's Progress. Both books present separate dimensions of Bunyan's spiritual journey. Taken together, the journey allegory and the battle allegory capture the full range and depth of the biblical message that consumed Bunyan's imagination. He credits his own salvation to these two things: The grace of God and tenacious, continual, holy warfare. The Holy War is testimony to a spiritual battle he fought, and won. This edition provides annotations that clarify Bunyan's first edition language and message for readers in a post-Puritan world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781725246720
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 08/08/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 332
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

About The Author
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English Puritan pastor and prolific author of sermons, theological treatises, poems, and allegories. He is best remembered for The Pilgrim's Progress and his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.


Daniel V. Runyon is Professor of English and Communication at Spring Arbor University and an authority on the works of seventeenth century allegory writer John Bunyan
Daniel V. Runyon is Professor of English and Communication at Spring Arbor University and an authority on the works of seventeenth century allegory writer John Bunyan
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