John Bunyan
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English Puritan preacher and writer, the author of The Pilgrim's Progress. A tinker from Elstow, near Bedford, he served as a young soldier in the Parliamentary army and passed through years of inner struggle before finding peace in faith and joining a Bedford congregation in the 1650s, as he recounted in Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666). Arrested in 1660 for preaching without a license, he spent some twelve years in the Bedford county jail, refusing release on condition that he stop preaching, writing steadily and making laces to support his family. Released in 1672, he became pastor of the Bedford church. The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), the allegory of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, became widely read and has appeared in many translations.
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Christian Imagination in English Literature
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress gave English literature enduring visions of virtue, temptation and salvation. Centuries later, C.S. Lewis wrote scholarly studies of Spenser and Milton and modeled The Pilgrim's Regress on Bunyan. His friend J.R.R. Tolkien, a devout Catholic, helped lead Lewis back to Christian faith, and both men expressed their beliefs through imaginative fiction in Middle-earth and Narnia.
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