J.班扬创作的《天路历程(英文版)》引用圣经的比喻多达200多处。作品中的人名、地名以及人物的语言，都与圣经息息相关。作品主人公的孩子“马太”就是耶稣的12个门徒之一，“雅各”是耶稣的弟弟，“约瑟”是雅各的儿子等。忠信，象征着基督教义的殉道精神，是真诚的天路客。作品的情节结构也是依据圣经故事编排的，主人公基督徒从“原罪”到醒悟，经过努力挣扎赎罪，*终皈依上帝。<br/>【推荐语】<br/>《天路历程》是班扬写于1678年的作品。出版之后，此书成为英国文学***重要的宗教意义的图书。汉语已经有几种不同译本了，近年还有人再译成汉语出版面世。此书被世界上200多种语言翻译过。<br/>【作者】<br/>John Bunyan (baptised 30 November 1628-31 August 1688) was an English writer and preacher best remembered as the author of the religious allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim "s Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford. He had little schooling and at the age of sixteen joined the Parliamentary army during the first stage of the English Civil War. After three years in the army he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learnt from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting,a nonconformist group in Bedford, and-becoming a preacher. After the restoration of the monarch, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in gaol as he refused to undertake to give up preaching. During this time he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release. <br/>
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