The Devotional Experience in the Poetry of John MiltonThe author examines Milton's poetry in the light of the poet's treatise on the subject of devotion in the often-overlooked second book of The Christian Doctrine. This study suggests that Milton's poems can be understood as both theodices and devotions. |
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... books present Satan , fallen from his glory as Lucifer , the champion of sin in the universe ; almost half of the third book accounts for Satan's activities as well . Only the first four hundred lines of Book Three present the scene in ...
... books present Satan , fallen from his glory as Lucifer , the champion of sin in the universe ; almost half of the third book accounts for Satan's activities as well . Only the first four hundred lines of Book Three present the scene in ...
Page 70
... Book Three is His creation of man and His projected plan to redeem him . When in Book Six God plans to defeat Satan and his rebel host , the Son develops His obedience to the Father yet further than he does in Book Three . After God ...
... Book Three is His creation of man and His projected plan to redeem him . When in Book Six God plans to defeat Satan and his rebel host , the Son develops His obedience to the Father yet further than he does in Book Three . After God ...
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... Book Three and Book Six . Though there is the devotion to the Father which we have noted on the parts of the Son and the loyal angels before the fall , it is Adam's and Eve's expressions of devotion that are most fully developed by the ...
... Book Three and Book Six . Though there is the devotion to the Father which we have noted on the parts of the Son and the loyal angels before the fall , it is Adam's and Eve's expressions of devotion that are most fully developed by the ...
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action active Adam and Eve Adam's angels Barbara Lewalski Book Three Calvary celebrate Christ Christian Doctrine Circumcision creator crucifixion Dagon Dalila death defeat despair devotional experience devotional love devotional poetry devout affections disobedience Don Cameron elegy Eve's evil experience devotion experience of devotion express devotion expression of devotion fall fallen Father final glory God's grace Harapha hope humility hymn of praise Ignatian important incarnation Isaiah Israel John Milton John Spencer Hill laments learns Lycidas man's Manoa Martz Mary Ann Radzinowicz mercy Michael Milton defines Milton's view narrative Nativity Ode obey Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Passion pastoral Philistines poem poet poet-speaker poet's postlapsarian prelapsarian prevenient grace pride Priest and Prophet promise protagonist Protestant meditation provides Reason of Church redeem redemption religious resurrection salvation Samson Agonistes Satan Satan's temptations Savior self-knowledge sins Son's patience speaker speech Spirit thee theodicy thou tradition understand verse paragraph victory worship XVII