Author: Denis SauratPublisher:
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Category : Milton, John, 1608-1674
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Milton, Man and Thinker
Author: Denis SauratPublisher:
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Category : Milton, John, 1608-1674
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Milton, Man and Thinker
Author: Denis SauratPublisher: Ardent Media
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Category : Milton, John, 1608-1674
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Milton, Man and Thinker
Author: Denis SauratMilton, Man and Thinker
Author: Denis SauratMilton, man and thinker, by Denis Saurat ... London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd
Author: Denis SauratMilton, Man and Thinker
Author: Joseph Anthony WittreichPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 21
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The Atheist Milton
Author: Michael E. BrysonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317040953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Basing his contention on two different lines of argument, Michael Bryson posits that John Milton-possibly the most famous 'Christian' poet in English literary history-was, in fact, an atheist. First, based on his association with Arian ideas (denial of the doctrine of the Trinity), his argument for the de Deo theory of creation (which puts him in line with the materialism of Spinoza and Hobbes), and his Mortalist argument that the human soul dies with the human body, Bryson argues that Milton was an atheist by the commonly used definitions of the period. And second, as the poet who takes a reader from the presence of an imperious, monarchical God in Paradise Lost, to the internal-almost Gnostic-conception of God in Paradise Regained, to the absence of any God whatsoever in Samson Agonistes, Milton moves from a theist (with God) to something much more recognizable as a modern atheist position (without God) in his poetry. Among the author's goals in The Atheist Milton is to account for tensions over the idea of God which, in Bryson's view, go all the way back to Milton's earliest poetry. In this study, he argues such tensions are central to Milton's poetry-and to any attempt to understand that poetry on its own terms.
Milton and the drama of the soul
Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110811480
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Milton's Theological Process
Author: Jason A. KerrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198875088
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views. Jason A. Kerr argues that reading in this way involves attention to the complex material state of the manuscript along with Milton's varying modes of engagement with scripture and various theological interlocutors, and reveals that Milton's approach to theology underwent significant change in the course of his work on the treatise. Initially, Milton set out to use Ramist logic to organize scripture in a way that drew out its intrinsic doctrinal structure. This method had two unintended consequences: it drove Milton to an antitrinitarian understanding of the Son of God, and it obliged him to reflect on his own authority as an interpreter and to develop an ecclesiology capable of sifting divine truth from human error. Consequently, Milton's Theological Process explores the complex interplay between Milton's preconceived theological ideas and his willingness to change his mind as it develops through the layers of revision in the manuscript. Kerr concludes by considering Paradise Lost as a vehicle for Milton's further reflection on the foundations of theology--and by showing how even the epic presents challenges to the fruits of these reflections. Reading Milton theologically means more than working to ascertain his doctrinal views; it means attending critically to his messy process of evaluating and rethinking the doctrinal views to which his prior study had led him.
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