Bunyan and Authority: the Rhetoric of Dissent and the Legitimation Crisis in Seventeenth-Century England

• Published in: Bunyan Studies no. 9; p. 79
• Main Author: Keeble, N H
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.1999
• Subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Rhetoric

With the break-down of central authority and the proliferation of competing sects no one ecclesiastical or doctrinal position could any longer command unchallenged assent: 'in the desperate search for legitimation procedures undertaken by each new sect, we have the constant production of what L...