The Name of the Prayer in The Holy War

The gloss also emphasizes inwardness, since the instrument is inside Mansoul. [...]readers encounter both the objective emblem of a spiritual weapon and a reminder that the weapon expresses part of the inner constitution of the Dissenting conscience. [...]Bunyan enthusiastically places allegorical l...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 19; p. 98
Main Author Gay, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2015
Subjects
Bible
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
Christianity
English literature
Inventors
Names
Religious persecution
Religious wars
Rites & ceremonies
Spirituality
United Kingdom > UK
England
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Summary:The gloss also emphasizes inwardness, since the instrument is inside Mansoul. [...]readers encounter both the objective emblem of a spiritual weapon and a reminder that the weapon expresses part of the inner constitution of the Dissenting conscience. [...]Bunyan enthusiastically places allegorical labels on everything within reach, yet he will only label this machine 'nameless'. [...]the enigma persists, as Bunyan no doubt intended, and new questions arise. [...]he provides an explanation for the role of Captain Credence, who operates the nameless instrument: 'one word spoken in Faith, is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, luke-warm way' (p. 252).
ISSN:0954-0970