John Bunyan's "Celestial City" and Oliver Cromwell's "Ideal Society"

The object of this essay is to draw a parallel between John Bunyan's dreams and ideals for a new English society as they allegorically appear in The Pilgrim's Progress, part I, and Oliver Cromwell's application of the traditional tenets of the Puritan religion —call, election, predest...

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Main Author: MacIntyre, Wendell P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 1990-11-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/1990-n3-john-bunyans-celestial-city-and-oliver-cromwells-ideal-society
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description The object of this essay is to draw a parallel between John Bunyan's dreams and ideals for a new English society as they allegorically appear in The Pilgrim's Progress, part I, and Oliver Cromwell's application of the traditional tenets of the Puritan religion —call, election, predestination— to the organization of the state. Even though Cromwell had died long before Bunyan's work was published in 1678, it can be established that such dreams and ideals for a new English society had been very much in evidence for a long time.
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John Bunyan's "Celestial City" and Oliver Cromwell's "Ideal Society"
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title John Bunyan's "Celestial City" and Oliver Cromwell's "Ideal Society"
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title_short John Bunyan's "Celestial City" and Oliver Cromwell's "Ideal Society"
title_sort john bunyan s celestial city and oliver cromwell s ideal society
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