Glimpses of glory : John Bunyan and English dissent /

Glimpses of glory : John Bunyan and English dissent /

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Author / Creator: Greaves, Richard L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Bunyan, John, > 1628-1688.
Bunyan, John, > 1628-1688 > Religion.
17th century
Early modern, 1500-1700
Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Christianity and literature.
Religion.
Dissenters, Religious.
History.
Dissenters, Religious > England > History > 17th century.
Authors, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography.
Authors, English.
Christian literature, English > History and criticism.
Christian literature, English.
Dissenters, Religious > England > Biography.
Dissenters, Religious, in literature.
Christian biography > England.
Christian biography.
England.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • 1.. The Early Years
  • "My Heighth of Vanity": Bunyan's Youth
  • "Kill, Kill, Was in Mine Ears": Bunyan in the Military
  • "The Religion of the Times": Early Religious Influences
  • 2.. Spiritual and Psychological Crisis
  • "An Exceeding Maze": The Struggle with Despair
  • "To Joyne in Fellowship": John Gifford and the Bedford Church
  • "Thred-bare at an Ale-House": The Ranter Challenge
  • 3.. The Young Preacher
  • "A New Upstart Sect": Bunyan and the Quakers
  • "These Dangerous Rocks": Sectarian Ferment
  • "Scalding Lead": Professional Clergy and the Rich
  • "Two Covenants in Their Right Places": Pulpit Theology
  • "Inchantments, and Witchcrafts": Quakers and Witches
  • "Throw Away All Thy Own Wisdome": Pulpit Controversy
  • 4.. Confronting Persecution
  • "Sweetly in the Prison": Arrest, Trial, and Appeal
  • "Holding Fast the Good": The Early Prison Years
  • "Gospelly Good": Christian Behaviour, a Last Testament
  • 5.. Millenarian Expectations
  • "Out of Babylon": The Return of the Holy City
  • "Now Is the End Come": The Last Judgment
  • "Read My Lines": Poetry and the End Times
  • "A Drop of Honey": Autobiographical Reflections
  • 6.. Charting the Pilgrimage
  • "The Way He Runs": The Christian Life as Metaphor
  • "Against Our Religion": The Setting of The Pilgrim's Progress
  • "Whither Must I Fly?": The Pilgrimage
  • "As I Pull'd, It Came": Inspiration and Experience
  • "By Dint of Sword": Persecution and Allegorical Warfaring
  • "Turn up My Metaphors": Interpreting the Allegory
  • 7.. The Anvil of Debate
  • "A Strict Separation": Church Membership and Communion
  • "Like an Eel on the Angle": Edward Fowler and the Debate about Justification
  • "Escape the Prison": Freedom
  • "Union and Communion Among the Godly": The Baptismal Controversy
  • "Cumber-ground Professors": Prophetic Admonitions
  • "Shie of Women": The Agnes Beaumont Episode
  • 8.. Evangelical Concerns
  • "Anathematised of God": Enemies of the Faith
  • "Wholsome Medicine": Teaching the Basic
  • "Holy-day Saints": Damned Professors
  • "Venture Heartily": Preaching Grace
  • "What Chaines So Heavy?": Evangelical Outreach
  • 9.. Popery's Long Shadows
  • "This Day of Jacobs Trouble": The Popish Plot and the Godly
  • "Good Coin in the Best of Tryals": A Sense of Impending Danger
  • "O Debauchery, Debauchery": Restoration Society and the Reprobate
  • "The Drum in the Day of Alarum": England in Crisis
  • 10.. Holy Warfare
  • "The Alarm of War": The Campaign to Repress Dissent
  • "New Modelling the Town": Efforts to Control the Boroughs
  • "Blood, Blood, Nothing but Blood": The Plot of The Holy War
  • "If Thou Wouldest Know My Riddle": Interpreting the Allegory--Soteriology and Personal Experience
  • "Things of Greatest Moment Be": Millenarian and Historical Concerns
  • "Turn the World Upside Down": Challenging Unregenerate England
  • 11.. The Struggle with Evil
  • "Tyranny of the Antichristian Generation": Antichrist and the Tory-Anglicans
  • "Vipers Will Come": Maintaining Priorities amid Political Turmoil
  • "The Rage of the Enemy": Battling Persecution
  • "A Place to Fight and Wrestle in": Repudiating Iniquity
  • 12.. Nonconformity and the Tory Backlash
  • "To Set You Right": Defining Women's Place
  • "Kiss the Rod": Survival and the Ethic of Suffering
  • "To Friends, Not Foes": A Return to The Pilgrim's Progress
  • "His Own Executioner": The Suicide of John Child
  • "The Christians Market-day": Repulsing the Seventh-day Sabbatarians
  • 13.. Facing a Catholic Monarch
  • "These Pretended Righteous Men": Denouncing Hypocritical, Persecuting Conformists
  • "God's Iron Whip": Seeking Hope Amid Persecution
  • "Catching Girls and Boys": Homely Rhymes and Poetic Diversions
  • "Take Shelter": Christ as Refuge
  • "Sack-cloth, Tears and Affliction": The Church in the Wilderness
  • 14.. Toleration Renewed: Bunyan's Final Months
  • "Liberty ... to Eat Freely": Dissent and the Lure of Toleration
  • "Watchman, Watchman, Watch": Reinforcing the Faithful
  • "A Voice from the Throne": Grace as a River, Christ as an Advocate
  • "Where Promises Swarm": The Quest for Jerusalem Sinners
  • "Ah! Pride, Pride!": A Transcript of the Heart
  • Epilogue
  • "Ah Goodman Bunyan!": A Retrospect
  • "To Every Place": Bunyan and His Pilgrims Through the Ages
  • "As Fancy Leads the Writers": Bunyan's Literary Reputation
  • Appendix. Provisional Dating of Bunyan's Publications
  • Bibliography of Primary Sources
  • Index of Biblical References
  • General Index

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