Luther's Commentary on Paul's Galatians and its Elizabethan translation, John Bunyan's 'wounded conscience', and Arthur Dent's Plaine Mans Pathway to Heaven

dc.contributor.authorTitlestad, P J H
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-22T15:34:11Z
dc.date.available2021-01-22T15:34:11Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractLuther gave his lectures on Paul’s Galatians in 1534. They offered a rather different theology from his thunderous predestinarian refutation of Erasmus in De servo arbitrio (1525). An English translation of the Commentary on Galatians appeared in 1575, a tattered copy of which fell into the hands of John Bunyan in the 1650s, and is mentioned lovingly in his autobiography for its capacity to assuage the troubled conscience. Luther was Bunyan’s coach in his battles with Satan – his doubts about his election: the Apollyon episode in The Pilgrim’s Progress, with its flaming darts, is central to the allegory and its chief link to Luther’s Commentary. How Marxist critics avoid this raises interesting questions about literary criticism. Another issue is whether Bunyan, under the influence of Luther’s Commentary, moves away from the Calvinist scholasticism of Arthur Dent’s The Plaine Mans Pathway to Heaven (1601) and of how his own experience and his pastoral practice came to be modified. Was Bunyan “Lutheran” or Calvinist? Was Richard Greave, our chief student of his theology, on the mark? And did Bunyan undergo something similar to the ‘tower experience’ which later scholars have attributed to Luther?en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationPeter Titlestad, 'Luther's Commentary on Paul's Galatians and its Elizabethan translation, John Bunyan's 'wounded conscience', and Arthur Dent's Plaine Mans Pathway to Heaven', Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 28 (2018): 87-120en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549392
dc.publisherSouthern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studiesen_ZA
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_ZA
dc.subjectErasmusen_ZA
dc.subjectApollyonen_ZA
dc.subjectMarxist literary criticismen_ZA
dc.titleLuther's Commentary on Paul's Galatians and its Elizabethan translation, John Bunyan's 'wounded conscience', and Arthur Dent's Plaine Mans Pathway to Heavenen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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