The Wilderness of the Word: John Bunyan and the Book in Christian's Hand

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Davies, Michael

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British & Irish literature

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Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences

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2011

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Bunyan Studies; Newcastle Upon Tyne, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 26-52.

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Crucially, early modern Bibles would be read in tandem with sermons delivered in church, the individual's reading of scripture being framed and informed by 'the soundest interpreters' (usually, as Ian Green notes, 'the best-educated ministers of the day') in a way that would prove mutually reinforcing: 'the faithful hear sermons preached by clergy who had studied the Bible and then prove their truth by reading the scriptures themselves'.28 In this way preachers provided their listeners with 'a model for their own reading' which subsequently demanded no further 'interpretive effort' and which would not have involved 'trying to decide which doctrines a text confirms and which it confutes': the reading of Scripture by the laity was not, after all, 'meant to produce new knowledge but to confirm what was already known'.29 In such a 'religious sphere, where the analogy of faith specifies the parameters within which comprehension can occur', Eugene R. Kintgen concludes, early modern Bible reading tended to be 'confirmatory rather than exploratory', with 'anything unanticipated' being 'unacceptable'.

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The Wilderness of the Word: John Bunyan and the Book in Christian's Hand

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