Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for more than three hundred years. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and has been translated into more languages than any book, other than the Bible. Its prolific author applied the same simple and passionate writing style to literally dozens of Bible-centered and doctrinally rich texts that have inspired generations of Christians for centuries after his death.
His preaching was not of the intertextual, learned, scholarly type that characterized earlier Elizabethan Puritanism. His low social origins and modest education generated a more direct, less theologically nuanced approach to the biblical text. Whereas the earlier Puritans theologized, Bunyan dramatized and allegorized with existential urgency.
—Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals
For the first time ever, you can add 61 classic titles from John Bunyan to your Logos Bible Software electronic library, at a tremendous discount!
Bunyan's writings share the same clear and direct style as his immensely popular sermons, which were known to draw crowds of around 3,000 individuals on Sunday, and about 1,200 at his 7 am weekday sermons!
Additional Product Info
- Edited By: George Offor
- Originally Published: 1853
Works of John Bunyan from Logos Bible Software consists of the authoritative, 3-volume edition of Bunyan's works, edited by George Offor. This collection includes Bunyan's famous Pilgrim's Progress, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, as well as many more.
While the print edition combines 61 titles into 3 volumes, the Logos Bible Software version splits most of the titles into individual resources in your digital library.
Praise for the Print Edition
"Bunyan has always been one of the most popular of the Puritans—no doubt because, while possessing the Word-centeredness as well as the depth of doctrine and experience of other Puritans, he also possessed a warm simplicity of style."
—Reformation and Revival Ministries, Reformation and Revival Volume 5, 2003
"Bunyan is best known for his ageless classic, The Pilgrim's Progress. His literary genius in this work [is such] that people are prone to forget that this tinker from Bedford was first and foremost a Pastor and preacher... Banner of Truth has done a great service to the Christian church by making available once again the works of Bunyan."
—Thomas K. Ascol, The Founders Journal
"For over 150 years the accepted edition of The Works of John Bunyan has been that edited by George Offor...This scholarly labor has contributed much toward a better appreciation of Bunyan's gospel motivated writings..."
—From Bunyan Ministries
Titles Included in the Electronic Edition
Volume 1
- Memoir of John Bunyan
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
- Relation of His Imprisonment, and Efforts of His Wife to Obtain His Release
- Continuation of Bunyan's Life
- Bunyan's Dying Sayings
- Bunyan's Prison Meditations
- The Jerusalem Sinner Saved
- The Greatness of the Soul
- The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate
- Christ—A Complete Saviour
- Come and Welcome, To Jesus Christ
- Justification by an Imputed Righteousness
- Saved by Grace
- The Strait Gate
- Light for them that Sit in Darkness
- The Fear of God
- Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded
- Israel's Hope Encouraged
- A Discourse Touching Prayer
- The Saint's Privilege and Profit
- The Acceptable Sacrifice
- Paul's Departure and Crown
- The Desire of the Righteous Granted
Volume 2
- The Saint's Knowledge of Christ's Love
- Antichrist and his Ruin
- The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Judgement
- Some Gospel Truths Opened
- A Vindication of Gospel Truths Opened
- A Discourse Upon the Pharisee and Publican
- A Defence of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith in Jesus Christ
- Reprobation Asserted
- Five Questions About the Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh-day Sabbath
- The Trinity and a Christian (alternate title: The Law and a Christian)
- Scriptural Poems
- An Exposition of the First Ten Chapters of Genesis
- A Holy Life—The Beauty of Christianity
- Christian Behaviour
- A Caution to Stir up to Watch Against Sin
- The Nature, Excellency, and Government of the House of God
- A Confession of My Faith
- Differences in Judgment About Water Baptism—No Bar to Communion
- Peaceable Principles and True
- A Case of Conscience Resolved (Women's Prayer Meetings)
- Instructions for the Ignorant
- Seasonable Counsel—or Advice to Sufferers
- An Exhortation to Peace and Unity
- Bunyan's Last Sermon
Volume 3
- The Pilgrim's Progress
- The Holy War
- A Map Showing the Order and Causes of Salvation and Damnation (graphic)
- The Heavenly Footman
- The Holy City—or the New Jerusalem
- Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
- The House of the Forest of Lebanon
- The Water of Life
- The Barren Fig-Tree
- The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
- Some Sighs from Hell
- One Thing is Needful (alternate title: Ebal and Gerizzim)
- A Book for Boys and Girls
- The Struggler
About John Bunyan
Bunyan, of Elstow and Bedford, is important to the Reformed tradition, since his famous allegory is one of the chief avenues by which the Puritan spirit entered the mainstream of the English Reformation. With Calvinism as foundational, Bunyan’s prolific writings and fervent preaching embodied a vibrant awareness of Reformed theological thought and its implication for Christian living. The author of more than sixty books, he gained a unique place in history through Grace Abounding (1666), The Pilgrim’s Progress (pt. 1, 1678; pt. 2, 1684), The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), and The Holy War (1682). Other works were primarily expository, doctrinal, and practical.
Bunyan joined the Bedford Baptist Church (1654) and soon began preaching in nearby villages. Prosecuted under an Elizabethan act against nonconformity, he was imprisoned for three months, which was extended to twelve years, with a brief respite during the sixth year.
Bunyan emphasized the centrality of the Bible as the foundation for belief and conduct, stressing the grace of God as the basis of predestination, the focal point of eternal salvation. Initiative in the salvation of sinners belonged to God, since God elected, within God’s purpose and framework of grace, certain individuals to eternal life. Subscribing to the doctrine of “effectual calling,” Bunyan believed it was impossible to resist the call because of the power with which the Holy Spirit accompanied and illuminated the sinner’s understanding. None of the elect could fall from grace.
Though Bunyan was primarily an adherent of the Calvinist tradition, his view of God as Savior, providing salvation from divine wrath rather than God as sovereign ruler, and his belief in the necessity of justification through grace alone showed influence of Luther. The separatist tradition shaped his view of the sacraments. He strongly opposed teachings of the Quakers and the Arminians.
- taken from The Encyclopedia of Reformed Faith
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