A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People by Hill, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface Contents Abbreviations Bunyan’s Writings Some Dates I. Bunyan’s England 1628–1688

1. The English Revolution 2. The Rich, the Poor, and the Middling Sort 3. Popular Literature

II. From Elstow to Newport Pagnell and Back

4. The Bunyans 5. In the Army

i. Newport Pagnell ii. Paul Hobson iii. Back to Elstow

III. Grace Abounding and the 1650S

6. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

i. Spiritual Autobiography ii. The Battle of the Texts iii. The Lost Inheritance

7. Ranters and Quakers 8. Early Writings

i. Anti-Quaker Pamphlets, 1656–1657 ii. Dives and Lazarus

9. Bunyan and the Bedford Congregation

i. The Congregation ii. Millenarianism

IV. Holding On

10. Preaching and Imprisonment 11. Adapting to the Restoration

i. ‘Normality’ Restored ii. In Jail

12. The Tinker and the Latitudinarians

i. The Subversive Bible ii. Bunyan and Edward Fowler iii. Tinkers, Education, and Literature

13. The Church after the Restoration

i. Bunyan and his Congregation ii. Millenarianism again

V. Bunyan’s Theology

14. Some Influences

i. Luther and Foxe ii. Arthur Dent (d. 1607) iii. Lewis Bayly (d. 1631) iv. Richard Bernard (1567–1641) v. William Dell(?1607–1669) vi. John Owen (1616-1683) vii. The Bible

15. Covenant Theology

i. The Protestant Heritage ii. The Will for the Deed iii. The Metaphors of Bunyan’s Covenant Theology

16. Social Uses of Hell-fire 17. Antinomianism

VI. Bunyan’s Major Creative Period: 1678–1686

18. The Pilgrim’s Progress

i. The Allegory and its Antecedents ii. Sweating Work iii. From this World to That Which is to Come iv. Progress, Circular, Linear, and Psychological v. Satire and Vanity Fair vi. Christian’s Wife and Children

19. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 20. The Holy War

i. Allegory and Epic ii. Sources for the Epic iii. The Holy War and Bedford Corporation

21. Music, Singing, and Poetry

i. Music ii. Poems

22. Self-denial and Humility

i. Self-denial ii. Songs in The Pilgrim’s Progress

VII. Last Years, Dangerous Years

23. Bunyans Printers 24. The Palace Beautiful

i. Baptism and the Church ii. Bunyan and the Woman Question iii. ‘Prayerless Professors’

25. Kings and Antichrist: Seeming Delays 26. Posthumous Writings: ‘Who bid the boar come here?’

VIII. Life after Death: 1688 Onwards

27. Bunyan and Dissent 28. Bunyan and Popular Culture

i. Between Two Cultures ii. Prose and Verse iii. Bunyan and Milton

29. Bunyan and the World

i. Bunyan the Man ii. Bunyan’s Contemporary Reputation iii. ‘Behold it was a Dream’

Appendix: The Radicalism of the New Model Army and the Existence of the Ranters Notes Index

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