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John Bunyan

Also known as Joannes Bunyan

English Christian writer and preacher (1628-1688)

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John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English theologian, writer, preacher, and novelist. Born in Elstow, he was a member of the Baptist faith and worked within the fields of Protestant theology, Anglicanism, and religious literature. His writing, conducted in English, focused on the genre of allegory.

His most notable work is *The Pilgrim’s Progress*. Other recorded works include *The children's Pilgrim's progress*, *Cherita darihal orang yang menchari selamat*, and *Cadwedigaeth trwy Ras*. Bunyan died in London and was buried at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1628
Died: 1688
Works: 628

Top works

Cherita darihal orang yang menchari selamat
Heart's ease in heart-trouble, or, A soverign remedy against all trouble of heart that Christ's disciples are subject to ..
The water of life, or, A discourse shewing the richness and glory of the grace and spirit of the gospel, as set forth in Scripture by this term, The water of life
Kʻristianosin u kʻristinēin chambordutʻiwně as ashkharhēs handerdzeal ashkharhě erazi dzewov
Pilgrim's progress

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Film & TV

Writing

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United Kingdom
Active from: 1628
Active to: 1688

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 452
Total plays: 6,243

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,252x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,497x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,874x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,518x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,119x

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Quotes

“See that your cause be good, else Christ will not undertake it.”
“When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.”
“And so I pennedIt down, until at last it came to be,For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.”
“Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so."Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No."”
“The name of the slough was Despond.”
“Every fat must stand upon its own bottom.”

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Works in European collections

6 objects attributed to John Bunyan, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

John Bunyan (/ˈbʌnjən/; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and nonconformist preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.

Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford. He had some schooling and, at the age of sixteen, joined the Parliamentary Army at Newport Pagnell during the first stage of the English Civil War. After three years in the army, he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learned from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in St John's church in Bedford, and later became a preacher. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in prison because he refused to give up preaching. During this time, he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Bunyan