Discovering the link in the inkling: “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and “The Pilgrim’s Regress”, author Rebeca Olaru

My present study endeavours to bring together under the same magnifying glass two writers belonging to different centuries, who, though physically distanced were close at heart.
The choice is mainly grounded on personal edification, but also on a desire to show that Christian literature still represents a subject of interest, and is still attractive for some students. Although there is a minority amongst them who approaches it for their papers, I was determined to be one of them.
I find we live worse times of ignorance than before, though ignorance has been a “luxury” that all people could afford in all times. In truth, some are the victims of ignorance unwillingly, due to circumstances they did not choose.
In writing on John Bunyan and C. S. Lewis, I try to search some of the things for myself, which I might have left aside before due to ignorance. I am touching some theological issues which I reckoned helpful for a better understanding of the writers’ religious positions. Some of the things I have discovered have puzzled me, and I am not bringing them forth for debate or to contrast the writers’ personal beliefs. I choose to walk in charted territories in the limits of my understanding and capability.
Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress has its place in the bag of my early childhood odds and ends. Because I then could enjoy only the pictures and the cartoon movie, but still be impressed, I believed I had to relive the experience, but accompanied by the reading.

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