John Bunyan

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O peregrino

Beschreibung

Na segunda metade do século 17, o cenário religioso da Europa era conturbado. Apesar do domínio geográfico e político, o cristianismo se estilhaçava em cisões cada vez mais profundas. Até mesmo o protestantismo enfrentava o problema da divisão, muitas vezes promovida por pessoas ou grupos motivados pelo desejo autêntico de servir a Deus de maneira abnegada, não importando os obstáculos no caminho. O peregrino venceu todas as barreiras - o tempo, as diferenças culturais e as divergências religiosas - e se consagrou como uma das obras de ficção mais lidas de todos os tempos. Geração após geração, leitores vêm buscando conforto, orientação e entretenimento na extraordinária jornada de Cristão, o peregrino que viaja rumo à Cidade Celestial. ¿O pregador inglês John Bunyan (1628-1688) tece de modo alegórico o destino de todo aquele que abraça a fé cristã como fundamento de vida. Em lugares sombrios como o Desfiladeiro do Desespero e o Pântano da Desconfiança, confrontado por personagens como Bajulação e Malicioso, seu protagonista se vê diante de inúmeras provações, e somente a perseverança e a confiança em Deus lhe permitirão alcançar seu alvo.

Autor

John Bunyan (/¿b¿nj¿n/; baptised November 30, 1628 - August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian 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 some 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 learned 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 jail as he refused 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. Bunyan's later years, in spite of another shorter term of imprisonment, were spent in relative comfort as a popular author and preacher, and pastor of the Bedford Meeting. He died aged 59 after falling ill on a journey to London and is buried in Bunhill Fields. The Pilgrim's Progress became one of the most published books in the English language; 1,300 editions having been printed by 1938, 250 years after the author's death. He is remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the United States Episcopal Church on 29 August. Some other churches of the Anglican Communion, such as the Anglican Church of Australia, honour him on the day of his death (31 August).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Editora Mundo Cristão
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2021
• Portugiesisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9788543302768
• ISBN-10: 8543302765
• Artikelnr.: 62524009