The Holy War: Sanctification as Spiritual Warfare

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 12; p. 105
• Main Author: Runyon, Daniel V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2006
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); English literature

William York Tindall misled a generation of Bunyan scholars when he wrote in 1934 that 'The Holy War is an allegory of conversion', that 'Mansoul was the city of the millennium', and that the book has a 'millenarian resolution'.1 Noting that 'the earthly happiness...