Milton and Isaiah: A Journey Through the Drama of Salvation in Paradise LostThis book compares Milton's Paradise Lost and the Book of Isaiah, by illustrating that both reflect the essential points of the whole Bible - rebellion, retribution, repentance, and restoration. Thematically, Milton's epic can be called a drama of salvation, which not only re-creates the Genesis story of the Fall of man, but also connects that first episode to the final restoration through Christ. What this study finds in Isaiah and Milton are theological themes and doctrines as the prophetic voice, the providential view of history, disobedience, the «saving remnant», the leader who is paradoxically a Suffering Servant, and the key virtue of humility. In this reading of Paradise Lost, Milton moves beyond the privileging of political activism to a position in which he gives absolute value to the reformation of the individual soul or, as the author terms it, the «inner self». |
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... original sin to repentance and ex- plain how the theme of repentance is connected to the general structure of Paradise Lost as a great drama of salvation . I shall also examine the Book of Isaiah , an epitome of God's salvation history ...
... original sin to repentance and ex- plain how the theme of repentance is connected to the general structure of Paradise Lost as a great drama of salvation . I shall also examine the Book of Isaiah , an epitome of God's salvation history ...
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... original sin , which is the beginning of a whole new experience in their life , opening the way to an awareness of good through evil , and vice versa . This aware- ness eventually brings them to reason in their fallen and chaotic ...
... original sin , which is the beginning of a whole new experience in their life , opening the way to an awareness of good through evil , and vice versa . This aware- ness eventually brings them to reason in their fallen and chaotic ...
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... original righteousness and perfection . " " On the other hand , the “ minimal " view less exalts original per- fection and considers the Fall less drastic . Berkhof writes in his Systematic The- ology that , according to the Protestant ...
... original righteousness and perfection . " " On the other hand , the “ minimal " view less exalts original per- fection and considers the Fall less drastic . Berkhof writes in his Systematic The- ology that , according to the Protestant ...
Contents
Two Pride and Humility | 31 |
Three Sin and Repentance | 59 |
Four The Paradise Within | 83 |
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