Life and setting
Bunyan was a Bedford tinker and Nonconformist preacher who spent years imprisoned for unlicensed preaching after the Restoration. He wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding and many other works.
Puritan Era • English Baptist / Puritan
John Bunyan
1628 – 1688 • Preacher and author
Why this person matters
The Pilgrim’s Progress became one of the most widely read Christian allegories in English and shaped evangelical spirituality across traditions.
What should not be sanitized
Labels such as Baptist and Puritan overlap imperfectly in Bunyan’s case; his congregation practiced a broad open-communion Nonconformity.
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