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Milton's Scriptural Reasoning

Milton's Scriptural Reasoning Narrative and Protestant Toleration

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Publisher's Synopsis

John Milton's major poems have long provoked wide-ranging judgements about the purposes of his biblical engagement. In this elegant and insightful study, Phillip J. Donnelly transforms our common perceptions about Milton's writing. He challenges the traditional assumption that the poet shared our modern view that reason is a capacity whose purpose is to control nature. Instead, Milton's conception of reason - both human and divine - is bound up with a poetic sense of difference, a capacity for being faithful to a goodness and beauty that survives the effects of human frailty in the fall. Providing fresh new readings of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Donnelly gives us important new perspectives on Milton's aesthetics, theology and politics.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781107404519
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.4
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 277
Weight: 380g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 15mm