Pilgrim's Progress
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VirginiaHuguenot
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John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is perhaps the best work of fiction/allegory in all of Christian literature. I could not commend it to readers whether young or old more highly!
Here is a review of it which you may find helpful: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bbunyan5.html
You can find more of his works here: http://www.johnbunyan.org/
Here is a review of it which you may find helpful: http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bbunyan5.html
You can find more of his works here: http://www.johnbunyan.org/
It is said that Pilgrim's Progress is the most read Christian book after the Bible.
It is very profitable.
It is very profitable.
ReformedWretch
Puritan Board Doctor
I have yet to read it. Are the updated versions acceptable? I mean in modern language, not the ones that tweak the story.
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
There is a modern English edition here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0882707574/102-9977455-4136120?v=glance
Can't say that I've read the modern edition so I don't know to what extent it may be abridged. I think the original edition is quite readable, however.
ReformedWretch
Puritan Board Doctor
Well, the first review makes it sound pretty safe!
Thanks Andrew.
Thanks Andrew.
JonathanHunt
Puritan Board Senior
I honestly cannot see what educated adult should not read it in the original version. I think that modern updates lose something....
Rather like comparing some of the grander passages of the KJV with the NASB.
I have a lovely one from about 1850 with the full Pilgrim's Progress, parts 1 and 2, and the Holy War.
Love it, just love it. It was said that Spurgeon read it once every year of his adult life. It would honestly do us no harm to do the same!
All this said, of course it is a bit tough for children, but there is a wonderful adaptation called 'Little Pilgrim's Progress' by Helen Taylor, which I read to my son, who is 7. He loves it. I can hardly contain myself sometimes, reading it to him.
JH
Rather like comparing some of the grander passages of the KJV with the NASB.
I have a lovely one from about 1850 with the full Pilgrim's Progress, parts 1 and 2, and the Holy War.
Love it, just love it. It was said that Spurgeon read it once every year of his adult life. It would honestly do us no harm to do the same!
All this said, of course it is a bit tough for children, but there is a wonderful adaptation called 'Little Pilgrim's Progress' by Helen Taylor, which I read to my son, who is 7. He loves it. I can hardly contain myself sometimes, reading it to him.
JH
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
Are there any editions for even younger children, like, say, 3-4 years old? Board books? Good illustrations, perhaps?
Irishcat922
Puritan Board Sophomore
Highly recommended reading, read it, read it again, read it again, then read it to your kids, read it to your wife. I ussually keep a few copies around for people I meet who haven't read it. It's my third favorite book, 1. the Bible, 2. Guthrie "The Christians Great Interest", 3. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
alwaysreforming
Puritan Board Sophomore
I don't want to make you guys too jealous, but...
at the church I attend they have it on cassette format, read in the original version. I checked it out and could listen to it as I was going to bed. Talk about "redeeming the time!"
I need to get it back and copy it since I'm moving soon.
I'm also copying to DVD Gerstner's tape series on "The Westminster Confession of Faith" and his "Lectures on Church History."
Gerstner is good! Its AMAZING how much he sounds like RC Sproul! (I know, I know, RC sounds like HIM, not the other way around!)
at the church I attend they have it on cassette format, read in the original version. I checked it out and could listen to it as I was going to bed. Talk about "redeeming the time!"
I need to get it back and copy it since I'm moving soon.
I'm also copying to DVD Gerstner's tape series on "The Westminster Confession of Faith" and his "Lectures on Church History."
Gerstner is good! Its AMAZING how much he sounds like RC Sproul! (I know, I know, RC sounds like HIM, not the other way around!)
Charismatic Calvinist
Puritan Board Freshman
The Pilgrim's Progress is outstanding. I first read the book in college along with Langland's Piers the Ploughman, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Showings by Julian of Norwich.
I had just gotten saved when I first read them and didn't care for them as much as when I re-read them all a few years later. Great literature!
I had just gotten saved when I first read them and didn't care for them as much as when I re-read them all a few years later. Great literature!
JonathanHunt
Puritan Board Senior
I would say that Little Pilgrim's Progress is perfectly readable to a 3 or 4 year old. It does have some pictures. I think that to simplify the tale too much, loses too much!
JH
Charismatic Calvinist
Puritan Board Freshman
Amenski.
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
Do you mean William Langland?
Charismatic Calvinist
Puritan Board Freshman
Andrew...yes.
Augusta
Puritan Board Doctor
This is a great book. You can download it in chapters, read aloud on the www.sermonaudio.com website. Here is a direct link Pilgrim's Progress. It's free. :bigsmile:
Average Joey
Puritan Board Junior
Was it after John Bunyan died that it became popular?In a way I hope so as a way to have him come before Christ and glorify Christ completely for what work he did through him(JB).And not to ever know while alive in the flesh because of his own sinfulness could have led him to pride for his work.If you understand what I am saying.
VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
Gotcha. I am unacquainted with Piers Plowman. It's a symptom of my public school education. It looks interesting! I wonder if Bunyan read it...?
Charismatic Calvinist
Puritan Board Freshman
No doubt Meg. Piers... is pretty "catholic-y" but it is a neat allegory. Put on your Holy Ghost filter and sift the nuggets out.
LadyFlynt
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I have to say...I don't think this is in the modern versions but....the copy I have of the original version has verses listed in the sidebars all throughout the book. Each section, paragraph, thought, or even sentence is referenced with a verse. Wonderful for looking things up.
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