Liberal theology, easy believism, and a Christianity with no cross are not new, although they went by other names when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this allegory.
John Bunyan wrote Pilgrim’s Progress, and it has been a top seller ever since, second only to the Bible in readership.
Hawthorne used Bunyan’s allegory as a basis for this allegory, revisiting the way to the Celestial City, but this time showing the way as liberal theologians of his day had tried to make it appear.
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