Centring Bunyan: Macaulay, Froude, Hale White

[...]Bunyan is 'almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete'. [...]as we yet know, morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command [...] [...]duty' can be presented to us in a shape whic...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 17; p. 68
Main Author Newey, Vincent
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2013
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British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
English literature
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Summary:[...]Bunyan is 'almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete'. [...]as we yet know, morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command [...] [...]duty' can be presented to us in a shape which will compel our recognition of it with equal or superior force, the passing away of 'the conviction of sin' can operate only to obscure our aspiration after a high ideal of life and character. [...]the extrapolation dominates as Hale White settles into reflections on the lot of ordinary humanity: [...]he remembered that by and by the day broke, and Christian cried, 'He hath turned the shadow of death into the morning.
ISSN:0954-0970