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Milton's Scriptural Theology : Confronting de Doctrina Christiana.

Hale, John K.

Milton's Scriptural Theology : Confronting de Doctrina Christiana. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (158 pages) - Borderlines Series . - Borderlines Series .

Cover -- Half-title -- Series Information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Materials -- Chapter 2. Axioms -- Unstated Assumptions -- Protestantism -- Chapter 3. The Biblical Citations -- Citing Scripture -- Omissions -- Selections -- Changes and Additions -- Additions -- Predestination -- Eloquence -- Chapter 4. Working from Wollebius -- Doctrina -- Simple Intensification -- Quirks -- Personal Experience -- Reductiveness -- Unconscious Emphasis: Prudence and Prohairesis -- Working It Out, Then Shrugging It Off (I.17 and 18) -- Departing from Wolleb -- Chapter 5. Named Theologians as Interlocutors -- The Listing -- Frequency and Incidence -- Erasmus and Beza -- Placaeus -- Junius in De Filio -- Seldenus -- Zanchius -- Cameron -- Polanus -- Luther and Calvin -- Ludovicus Capellus -- Amesius -- Conclusions -- Part 2. Arts of Language -- Chapter 6. Philology -- Haeresis and Haereticus (Epistle, MS 4, Oxford, 8) -- Invalidations -- Natura and Fatum -- Elohim -- Singulars and Plurals Continued (I.5, MS 69i, Oxford, 166-67) -- Analusai (I.14, MS 179i, Oxford, 456-57) -- Persona (I.5 and I.14 -- MS 54 and 190-91 -- Oxford, 138-39 and 480-81) -- Incompatibles: Onah versus Res Turpis -- Onah -- Res Turpis -- What Else? -- Chapter 7. The Pagan Allusions -- Aristotle -- Euripides -- Homer -- Greek Prose -- Virgil Continued -- Ovid -- Horace -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 Person to Person-How Pronouns Contribute -- Grammar and Idioms -- Pronouns as Voices in the Chapters: Second-Person Fictions -- Second-Person Fictions (Continued) -- Intermingling of Third-Person Expressions -- Questions of Belonging -- "Our" Religion -- Amesius Noster -- Conclusions -- Part 3. Trinity -- Chapter 9. Milton's De Filio -- Scriptural Evidence: The Road Not Taken -- The Preface -- Generation. How Style Contributes -- Wordplay -- Repetition -- Eristic -- The Rhetoric -- The Johannine Comma (MS 59m, Oxford, 149) -- The Prize Passage: Locus Palmarius -- Glimpsing the Alternative -- Chapter 10. Theologies Compared -- Hail, Holy Light […] -- Actions and Theses -- Contrast Not the Only Relation -- John Creaser's View -- The Underlying Question -- The Personal Impetus -- The Person within the Theology -- The Man in the Style -- Appendix 1: Further Etymologies -- Semper esse (I.2 -- MS 14i, Oxford, 36) -- Satan (I.9) -- Pepoithesis (MS 250f/251i, Oxford, 584, in I.20) -- Ekklesia (MS 366i, Oxford, 770) -- Clerus (I.29, MS 380, with Oxford, 788-89 with 793n.xi, and also MS 417m, Oxford, 842-43, with 853n.xv) -- Iusiurandum -- Blasphemia, Blasphemare (MS 561, II.6, Oxford, 1028-29) -- Sabbath (MS 573i, II.7, Oxford, 1044) -- Usury (II.14, MS 681i, Oxford, 1182) -- Appendix 2: Hobbes and Dryden -- Hobbes -- Dryden -- Reason -- Paul -- Father Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament -- Bibliography -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Texts -- Index.

A close reading of Milton's De Doctrina, which reveals the personal dimension of his theology and the passion and energy of his mind.

9781641893411


Milton, John,-1608-1674-Religion.
Milton, John,-1608-1674.-De doctrina Christiana.
Christian literature, English-History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PR3592.R4 H35 2019

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