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'I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had voluntarily chosen me to be a vessel of mercy, though I should desire, and long, and labour until my heart did break, no good could come of it ...How can you tell you are Elected?' (GA, 47) In seventeenth-century England, the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, with its belief in the predetermined salvation of the few and damnation of the many, led many Christians to an anguished search for evidence of God's favour. John Bunyan's Grace Abounding records this spiritual crisis and its gruelling fluctuations between hope and despair in all its psychological intensity. It is a classic of spiritual autobiography - a genre which flourished in seventeenth-century England, as anxiety over one's spiritual state encouraged rigorous self-scrutiny and the sharing of spiritual experiences. This edition sets Grace Abounding alongside four of the most interesting and varied contemporary spiritual autobiographies, making its cultural milieu more meaningful to the modern reader.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192821324
eBay Product ID (ePID)90787127
Product Key Features
Book TitleGrace Abounding: with Other Spiritual Autobiographies
AuthorJohn Bunyan
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary Theory, Christianity
Publication Year1998
Dimensions
Item Height196mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Bunyan
Series TitleOxford World's Classics
EditorAnita Pacheco, John Stachniewski
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom