Welcome to the Outside of Sunday Podcast. This episode is the first book review for the podcast and our first book is - The Pilgrim's Progress.
The Pilgrim's Progress is a classic Christian allegory. An allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. The Pilgrim's Progress is not only a Christian classic, but it has been described as the ultimate English classic, a book that has been continuously in print, from its first publication in 1678 to the present day. And despite the wide gap in time (almost 350 years) from the author to the modern 2023 reader it remains relevant. Not only relevant but helpful, inspiring, challenging and encouraging. The guardian newspaper (non-Christian newspaper) made it number 1 in their ‘top 100 best novels’:
“There's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, CS Lewis, John Steinbeck and even Enid Blyton.” - The Guardian
If you are looking for a feel-good Christian book telling you how wonderful you are and how pleasant the Christian life is, or how to prosper financially as a Christian in the world this is not the book you are looking for. But I hope it’s the book you find. The Pilgrim's Progress cuts to the heart of Christianity and if you let it, it will shape your Christian walk for the better.
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