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- catalog abstract ""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 Bunyan's writings, both through the terms of seventeenth-century covenant theology, and through some distinctly 'postmodernist' ideas about narrative practice."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12562760.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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 Bunyan's writings, both through the terms of seventeenth-century covenant theology, and through some distinctly 'postmodernist' ideas about narrative practice."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "A comfortable doctrine: John Bunyan's theology of grace -- Bunyan's exceeding maze: Doctoring and doctrine in Grace abounding to the chief of sinners -- Of things seen and unseen: Graceful reading and narrative practice in Grace abounding -- Into an allegory: Method, metaphor, and the apology of The pilgrim's progress -- 'Sweet fiction and sweet truth': Theology and narrative in The pilgrim's progress -- First among sequels: John Bunyan's other allegories -- Postscript: The legacy of The pilgrim's progress.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-383) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 393 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0199242402 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "828/.407 21".
- catalog subject "Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Contributions in covenant theology.".
- catalog subject "Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Religion.".
- catalog subject "Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Christian literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Covenant theology History of doctrines 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Covenant theology in literature.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PR3332 .D38 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "A comfortable doctrine: John Bunyan's theology of grace -- Bunyan's exceeding maze: Doctoring and doctrine in Grace abounding to the chief of sinners -- Of things seen and unseen: Graceful reading and narrative practice in Grace abounding -- Into an allegory: Method, metaphor, and the apology of The pilgrim's progress -- 'Sweet fiction and sweet truth': Theology and narrative in The pilgrim's progress -- First among sequels: John Bunyan's other allegories -- Postscript: The legacy of The pilgrim's progress.".
- catalog title "Graceful reading : theology and narrative in the works of John Bunyan / Michael Davies.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".