Year of living biblically

[marieelissa]

Interesting book

[502mania]

Interesting book

im going to have to pick that up......

[jcribb16]

Another great book:

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Bunyan wrote this book while imprisoned in 1675 for violations of the Conventicle Act, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside the auspices of the established Church of England. The allegory tells of Christian, an everyman character, who makes his way from the "City of Destruction" (earth) to the "Celestial City" ( heaven) of Zion. Christian finds himself weighed down by a great burden that he gets from reading a book (obviously the Bible). This burden, which would cause him to sink into Tophet ( hell), is Christian's acute, immediate concern that impels him to the crisis of what to do for deliverance. Evangelist suddenly comes by to direct Christian for deliverance to the "Wicket Gate," which is the direction indicated by a "shining light" that Christian thinks he sees. An insight into what the burden is allegorically is given by Help, Christian's rescuer from the Slough of Despond. Many other "helpful" characters include: Obstinate, Pliable, Formalist, Hypocrisy, Goodwill, Beelzebub, Faithful, etc. (this write-up comes from 2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection)

[jordandog]

Ah, the memories.....Pilgrims Progress was required reading in High School for us. That was just a couple years ago, how time flies......

[jcribb16]

  I love Pilgrim's Progress, it was required reading for us in High School to but I've read it a few times since...another one that was required reading in H.S. that I thought was very interesting is "Foxe's Book of Martyrs".

I don't remember that one - I'll have to look it up.