The English author and Baptist preacher John Bunyan (1628-1688) wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress" and some 60 other pious works. The sincere evangelical urgency of his religious thought and the vivid clarity of his prose have won wide admiration. John...

John Bunyan, author of the immortal allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684), was born in November 1628 in Elstow, near Bedford, to Thomas Bunyan and his second wife, Margaret Bentley Bunyan. Not much is known about the details of Bunyan's life;...

John Bunyan, author of the immortal allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684), was born in 1628 in Elstow, near Bedford, to Thomas Bunyan and his second wife, Margaret Bentley Bunyan. Not much is known about the details of Bunyan's life; his...

BUNYAN, JOHN (1628–1688), English Nonconformist and author of The Pilgrim's Progress. The son of a brazier, John Bunyan was born in the village of Elstow, near Bedford, and may have attended a local grammar school. During the Civil War he...

John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably the most famous published...

JOHN BUNYAN was possibly the most gifted dental surgeon of his generation. He was an outstanding and innovative dentist with a private practice in Harley Street for almost 40 years. As a young boy in America, he stood up to correct the US...

Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent. By Richard L. Greaves. (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 693. $75.00.) Richard Greaves is a redoubtable historian of seventeenth-century English Protestantism. Since the 1960's he has published a stream of weighty books, including...

There is a reason why reports of a rare strain of tuberculosis attracted worldwide attention: a history as scary as the plague.More than 4,000 years ago, tuberculosis killed an Egyptian whose mummified remains were dug up; the case was first described in 1910. Hippocrates called...

In the following essay, Knott discusses the role of martyrdom in Bunyan's works as well as his belief that the persecution faced by Christians was a battle for truth that was part of God's plan.

In the following essay, Hawkins analyzes the differences between the methods of conversion espoused by Augustine and Bunyan.

In the following essay, Spargo examines Grace Abounding as one of the first texts to explore the subject of liberal humanism, noting that it has often been studied as a founding example of the struggle to define the meaning of authority, authorship, and modern subjectivity.