The Word and the World: Spatial Allegory and the Nature of The Pilgrim's Progress

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 26; pp. 79 - 100
• Main Author: Bergen, Richard Angelo
• 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: Bible; Christianity; Cities; Conceptual metaphor; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Metaphor; Pilgrims; Protestant Reformation; Realism; Religious literature; Spirituality; Topography; Lebanon; Israel; Jerusalem Israel

Here Bunyan approximates medieval thought on the Book of Nature conceptual metaphor; specifically, that elements of nature may be considered in a deeper way from the primary physical function: 'Since it is the wisdom of God to speak to us ofttimes by trees, gold, silver, stones, beasts, fowls,...