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What does a journey from sin to salvation look like when it becomes a story?

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan explores that question through allegory. Its subject is a spiritual journey from sin toward salvation. Rather than presenting those ideas only as abstractions, the book gives them the shape of a journey to follow.

In this classic literary work, the journey carries a religious meaning: salvation is its destination, and sin is its starting point. Read it as an invitation to consider those ideas through story, with attention to what the journey itself represents.

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Die Pilgerreise

by John Bunyan · 1678

An allegorical journey leads from sin toward salvation.

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John Bunyan

1628–1688 · English writer and preacher

John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English writer and preacher. He was born in Elstow, near Bedford, and lived in Bedford. He wrote Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678 and 1684), The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), and The Holy War (1682). He died in London.

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