SOURCE: Spargo, Tamsin. “‘I being taken from you in presence’: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and claims to authority.” In The Writing of John Bunyan, pp. 43-67. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1997.
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.
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