HIST 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Bunyan, High Church, Edmund Gibson
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Lecture 11 - the anglican church, toleration and the p. He was arrested and was a protestant dissenter. He was in prison for 12 years because it was illegal to hold services outside the anglican church. It is an allegory of the passage through life of a christian. William blake at the end of the 18th century carried out allegories. This illustrates the politics of religion, he said he would never stop preaching even if he was held in prison. Provided a way in which people thought, this was one of the most widely circulated books in the 18th century and many people had a copy of it. It also suggested that people took religion very seriously, many people believed deeply in the tenants of christianity and lived in the expectation that they would go to heaven or hell and had to act accordingly. It is difficult to know how many people were passionate believers in the.
