**John Bunyan's extraordinary spiritual autobiography
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In an age when religious radicalism was regarded as socially subversive,
Bunyan's Grace Abounding describes the spiritual regeneration of one
who came from 'that rank that is meanest and most despised'. God and
Satan are the chief protagonists in Bunyan's drama: they exist not as
theological concepts but as terrifyingly immediate adversaries in the
competition for Bunyan's soul. 'What care I, ' says Satan to Bunyan,
'though I be seven years in chilling your heart, if I can do it at
last?' Bunyan finds his spiritual defences not so much in God as in the
Bible, and Grace Abounding charts his passionate and imaginative
involvement with this ultimate source of spiritual wisdom.
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