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Graceful Reading

Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan [Hardback]

by Lecturer In English At The University Of Leicester) Michael Davies (

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      July 2002

    • Weight

      677g

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    Graceful Reading

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    Product 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 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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    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      July 2002

    • Weight

      677g

    • Page Count

      412

    • Dimensions

      140 x 216 x 27 mm

    • ISBN

      9780199242405

    • ISBN-10

      0199242402

    • Eden Code

      1190670

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    • ISBN: 9780199242405

    • Publisher: Oxford University Press

    • Release Date: July 2002

    • Weight: 677g

    • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 27 mm

    • Eden Code: 1190670

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