The Bible and the Pilgrim in East and West: The Use of the Scriptures in The Way of the Pilgrim and The Pilgrim's Progress

Abstract

This article compares the appeal to the scriptures in two classic Christian texts, one from the Russian hesychast tradition and the second from a seventeenth century English Baptist John Bunyan.

Keywords

• Hesychasm
• John Bunyan
• Way of the Pilgrim
• scriptural hermeneutics