The Pilgrim's Progress

Cultural  

1. (1678, 1684) A religious allegory by the seventeenth-century English author John Bunyan. Christian, the central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Along the way he faces many obstacles, including the Slough of Despond. He is eventually successful in his journey, and is allowed into heaven.

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Example Sentences

His account rivaled John Bunyan’s "The Pilgrim’s Progress" as a parable and primer for the Puritans’ holy but dangerous errand into the “howling wilderness,” as the historian John Demos recounts in "The Unredeemed Captive; A Family Story of Early America," highlighting Williams' daughter's refusal to leave her Native captors to rejoin the English world.

From Salon

He found inspiration piecing together scraps from other works, including from an opera he feared he would not finish, “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and short contributions to a pageant that he had directed, “England’s Pleasant Land.”

From New York Times

“Maybe something more penitential like ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress,’” the lawyer replied.

From New York Times

Witness John Bunyan, who began “The Pilgrim’s Progress” during a 12-year prison sentence or Jean Genet, who produced his subversive masterpiece, “Our Lady of the Flowers,” while he was behind bars.

From Washington Post

Will he take the Pilgrim’s Progress path to greatness and spiritual fulfillment?

From Golf Digest