John Bunyan's "Celestial City" and Oliver Cromwell's "Ideal Society"

Wendell P. MacIntyre
1990 Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses  
The object of this essay is to draw a parallel between John Bunyan's dreams and ideáis for a new English society as they allegorically appear in The Pügim's Progress, part I, and Oliver Cromwell's application of the traditional tenets of the Puntan religión -cali, election, predestination-to the organization of the state. Even though Cromwell had died long before Bunyan's work was published in 1678, it can be established that such dreams and ideáis for a new English society had been very much in evidence for a long time.
doi:10.14198/raei.1990.3.08 fatcat:a3duh7pgd5alpdldqfadjvdwri