Title

Evangelical Devotionals and Bible Studies of The Pilgrim’s Progress: Fidelity or Bibliolatry?

School/Department

Talbot School of Theology

Publication Date

8-1-2020

Abstract

I examine contemporary evangelical Bible studies and devotionals devoted to John Bunyan’s 1678 spiritual classic The Pilgrim’s Progress. Focusing on treatments of Bunyan’s Vanity Fair sequence, I ask whether these resources demonstrate fidelity to the text and to Scripture or whether they are instead examples of bibliolatry. Implications for the design of Bible studies in the ministry of Christian education are offered following theological analysis of the biblical imagination required for such tasks.

Keywords

John Bunyan; Pilgrim’s Progress; Bibliolatry

Publication Title

Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry

Volume

17

Issue

2

First Page

264

Last Page

282

DOI of Published Version

10.1177/0739891319900183

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