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[[File:Pilgrim1678b.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Title Page of the 1678 First Edition]]

[[File:Pilgrim1678b.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Title Page of the 1678 First Edition]]

'''''Pilgrim's Progress''''' was published on February 18, 1678, by the English [[Puritan]] writer [[John Bunyan]] (1628-1688).  This book is a [[Christian]] [[allegory]], divided into two parts.  The first is about a pilgrim, called Christian, and his journey to the celestial city.  The second is about how the other members of his family followed after him on pilgrimage.<ref>John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress,'' The Christian Library edition, 1984. </ref>  

'''''Pilgrim's Progress''''' was published on February 18, 1678, by the English [[Puritan]] writer [[John Bunyan]] (1628-1688).  This book is a [[Christian]] [[allegory]], divided into two parts.  The first is about a pilgrim, called Christian, and his journey to the celestial city.  The second is about how the other members of his family followed after him on pilgrimage.<ref>John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress,'' The Christian Library edition, 1984.</ref>  

Virtually every colonial home in New England had a copy of ''Pilgrim's Progress'', and it was a best-seller worldwide.

Virtually every colonial home in New England had a copy of ''Pilgrim's Progress'', and it was a best-seller worldwide.

==Commentary==

==Commentary==

The radicals of John Bunyan's day felt that new revelations were imminent and Bunyan's attraction to this idea can be detected in ''Pilgrim's Progress,'' though he remained essentially a conservative.<ref> Dayton Haskin, "The Pilgrim's Progress In The Context Of Bunyan's Dialogue with the Radicals." ''Harvard Theological Review'' 1984 77(1): 73-94. </ref>  

The radicals of John Bunyan's day felt that new revelations were imminent and Bunyan's attraction to this idea can be detected in ''Pilgrim's Progress,'' though he remained essentially a conservative.<ref>Dayton Haskin, "The Pilgrim's Progress In The Context Of Bunyan's Dialogue with the Radicals." ''Harvard Theological Review'' 1984 77(1): 73-94.</ref>  

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Greaves, Richard L. "Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' 2004 online

* Greaves, Richard L. "Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' 2004 online