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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 5 Podcast 19 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Ch 1 B "The Beginning of the Journey."
Description: Season 5 Podcast 19 John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory; therefore, the names are types or symbols. For example, Pliable who agrees to accompany Christian symbolizes all those who are agreeable and easy to manipulate. They are unreliable and take the easiest way. They do not lead. They follow. Pilgrim’s Progress reads much like a very long sermon. The model, of course, is taken from the Bible itself, which Christian refers to as ‘The Book.’ Evangelist teaches strictly from The Book. In Pilgrim’s Progress we will meet characters, such as Wordly Wiseman...