NEWS AND REPORTS

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 17; p. 152
• Main Author: Breen, Margaret Sönser
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); Hong Xiuquan; Owens, Catherine
• ISSN: 0954-0970

[...]Daniel V. Runyan reflected on the text's relation to The Pilgrim 's Progress and Sarah Ritcheson explored 'the politics of millennial waiting' in The Holy War and Milton's Paradise Regained, while David Walker examined both The Holy War and The Holy City in terms of the 'stresses and strains of the Restoration Settlement and the developing history of religious nonconformity'. [...]Robert G. Collmer's 'Using Bunyan for "Holy War" in the 1850s in the Crimea and China' not only discussed The Holy War as an inspirational text for British soldiers in the Crimea but also pointed out that Chinese translations of The Pilgrim 's Progress as well as the story of Bunyan's life may have played an inspirational role for Taiping king Hong Xiuquan, in the Taiping Rebellion of 1851-64. On the one hand, he professed himself a loyal subject of Charles II, whose nonconformity posed no threat to the restored monarchy or the re-established Episcopal Church of England, and he argued for political quietism and for patience, not retaliation, under persecution and suffering.