Bunyan's Daring Compassion: Much-afraid and Changing Attitudes to Suicide in Late Seventeenth-Century England

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 26; pp. 28 - 54
• Main Authors: Foster, Lori, Zinck, Arlette
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2022
• Subjects: 18th century; Daughters; Donne, John (1572-1631); Fear & phobias; Individualism; Middle Ages; Reading; Religion; Spirituality; Theology; United Kingdom > UK; England

[...]the episode connects directly to three things: an intriguing historical shift in attitudes regarding suicide that is evident in Bunyan's England when he was completing The Second Part; a personal link to the much talked about suicide of a fellow Christian minister connected to Bunyan and h...