Prisoner of Conscience: John Dunyan on Self, Community and Christian Faith (Studies in Christian History and Thought) - Softcover

"'Against standard readings of Bunyan as a modern subjectivist, Galen Johnson shows that the great Dissenter constantly resorted to ancient Christian tradition, to both biblical and doctrinal objectivity, to a strict privileging of the Christian community over solitary faith, even to the sacraments. In sum, a revolutionary book for Bunyan studies and the contemporary church alike... 'evangelical scholarship at its very best' Ralph C. Wood, Baylor University."

This is an interdisciplinary study of John Bunyanas understanding of conscience across his autobiographical, theological, and fictional writings, investigating whether conscience always deserves fidelity, and how Bunyanas view of conscience affects his relationship both to modern Western individualism and historic Christianity.