John Bunyan, Kevin Belmonte
John Bunyan, Kevin Belmonte
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John Bunyan

Author: Kevin Belmonte

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2018

Synopsis

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience.The author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books in English literature, had little formal education. Born in 1628, the son of a tinker, John Bunyan was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. He was allowed to go to school for a few years and purchase a few books, but his apprenticeship in the family business took precedence. Bunyan experienced his first sorrow in adolescence, when both his mother and sister died. It wasn’t his last. Revolutions and wars were all around him, and he was jailed twice for preaching the Gospel. Yet amidst repeated imprisonments, civil war, and violent persecution, Bunyan crafted The Pilgrim’s Progress, a testament unlike any other to the triumph of the human spirit. His simple cadences transformed the language, and his memorable characters became familiar to millions. Bunyan became a public figure, a captivating speaker, and above all, a man known for his unrelenting trust in God.

About Kevin Belmonte

Kevin Belmonte holds a BA in English literature and an MA in church history. His biography William Wilberforce received the John Pollock Award for Christian Biography. He served as the lead historical consultant for the motion picture Amazing Grace.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher

This was a great starter biography to close out the year for me. I would love to read more on Bunyan (maybe his autobiography), but this was a great way to get the background on his life before I finally read The Pilgrims Progress. If the whole series is as good as this volume was, It'll be a great......more

Goodreads review by Lois

In his preface to John Bunyan, Kevin Belmonte speaks of his youthful intoxication with the Christian writer’s “simply wrought cadences” and “vividly conceived characters,” as well as his mastery of imagery “that has inspired writers from Thackeray to C. S. Lewis.” Both in his preface and in his prol......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Perhaps no other book besides the Bible itself, has had more of an impact on Western culture as a whole and Christianity in particular than John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan was not a well-educated divine, nor a churchman of high caliber. He was not educated in Oxford or Cambridge. No, he was......more

Goodreads review by Lois

In his preface to Christian Encounters: John Bunyan, Kevin Belmonte speaks of his youthful intoxication with the Christian writer’s “simply wrought cadences” and “vividly conceived characters”, as well as his mastery of imagery “that has inspired writers from Thackeray to C. S. Lewis”. Both in his p......more

Goodreads review by Susan

350 years ago, an English man of humble origins wrote the Christian (and, really, English language) classic, The Pilgrim's Progress. "John Bunyan (Christian Encounters Series" is his biography. I must confess I've never read The Pilgrim's Progress, although as a living-and-breathing human, I've certa......more

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