Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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... Christian Dictionary calls " the chiefe Words dispersed gener- ally through Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament , tending to increase Christian knowledge . " Other Renaissance compendia fol- low suit . Particularly those that ...
... Christian Dictionary calls " the chiefe Words dispersed gener- ally through Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament , tending to increase Christian knowledge . " Other Renaissance compendia fol- low suit . Particularly those that ...
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... Christian beliefs adequately explain what he did with the epic tradition . Yet Christian doctrine by itself does not ac- count for Milton's strategy . Christian writers of heroic story had struggled for centuries to reconcile the ...
... Christian beliefs adequately explain what he did with the epic tradition . Yet Christian doctrine by itself does not ac- count for Milton's strategy . Christian writers of heroic story had struggled for centuries to reconcile the ...
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... Christian , Milton believed , must de- pend on the indwelling Spirit , the internal Scripture , to inter- pret the text , the external Scripture . Milton's solution was to adhere to Scripture as interpreted by the Spirit within him ...
... Christian , Milton believed , must de- pend on the indwelling Spirit , the internal Scripture , to inter- pret the text , the external Scripture . Milton's solution was to adhere to Scripture as interpreted by the Spirit within him ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
Copyright | |
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