Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered MindKristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham The nineteen essays in this collection explore such varied fields of argument as John Milton's authorship of the Christian Doctrine, his adaptations of source material, his engagement in political controversies, his attitudes toward gender in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, and his reflection of seventeenth-century obstetrics and anticipation of modern chaos theory in Paradise Lost. In their sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, and consistently interrogative views of Milton and his work, these essays offer an "arena of conflict" for future studies. |
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Page 108
... God's will was itself ruled by an intrinsic and inviolable stand- ard of rational law and nondeterminists who believed that God allows hu- manity a significant portion of free will so that not all events are inevitable . To sum up ...
... God's will was itself ruled by an intrinsic and inviolable stand- ard of rational law and nondeterminists who believed that God allows hu- manity a significant portion of free will so that not all events are inevitable . To sum up ...
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... God's ways ; in Paradise Lost he seeks to justify them , and he does so in terms of God's love for humankind . Any effort to represent divine love in political terms invariably ends up as an argument suspiciously circular - I love God ...
... God's ways ; in Paradise Lost he seeks to justify them , and he does so in terms of God's love for humankind . Any effort to represent divine love in political terms invariably ends up as an argument suspiciously circular - I love God ...
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... God's creation . If he cannot prevent their fall with his warnings , he can tell them his own story in the faith that God's ways with the faithful are constant . " What if , " he wonders , Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n , and things ...
... God's creation . If he cannot prevent their fall with his warnings , he can tell them his own story in the faith that God's ways with the faithful are constant . " What if , " he wonders , Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n , and things ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Miltons Transgressive Maneuvers | 21 |
Ramblings in Elucidation of the Authorship of the Christian | 41 |
Copyright | |
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