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Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan

Autor Michael Davies
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iul 2002
Graceful Reading offers a new way of understanding Bunyan's theology and his narrative art, examining and reassessing the complex and interdependent relationship between them. Michael Davies begins by proposing that Bunyan's theology is far from obsessed with the forbidding Calvinist doctrine of predestination and its corollary tendency towards painful introspection. Bunyan's is, rather, a comfortable doctrine, in which the believer is encouraged to accept salvation through the far more assuring terms of Bunyan's covenant theology - those of faith and grace. The book then reassesses how Bunyan's narrative style is informed by this theology. Works such as Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress reveal a profound sensitivity to narrative forms and reading practices, as they aim to inculcate in their readers a self-consciousness about reading itself which is instrumental in the very process of spiritual instruction, in seeing 'things unseen'. This is a study, therefore, which asserts a radically different way of reading of Bunyan's writings, both through the terms of seventeenth-century covenant theology, and through some distinctly 'postmodernist' ideas about narrative practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199242405
ISBN-10: 0199242402
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 2 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 144 x 223 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Davies provides an elegant and persuasive explication of the power of Bunyan's prose and brings us back in touch with the affective reality which informs Bunyan's ultimate and over-riding conviction that the language of the Bedford congregation, like that of the Bedford women, is a language of joy and consolation.

Notă biografică

Michael Davies is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester