Title Milton's scriptural reasoning : narrative and Protestant toleration / Phillip J. Donnelly

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) Contents Introduction : scriptural reasoning -- Scriptural reasoning in Milton's prose -- Reason, rhetoric, and educational reading -- Monism and Protestant toleration -- Biblicist rhetoric and ontology in Paradise lost -- Divine justice and divine filiation -- Divine kingship -- Rational battle -- Rational allegory and gender -- Biblicist poetics and hermeneutic ethics -- Biblical metanarrative as rule of faith -- Paradise regained as rule of charity -- Samson agonistes as personal drama Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Religion Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast Milton, John. swd Subject Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Christian poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Christian poetry, English -- Early modern Christianity and literature Political and social views Protestantism and literature Religion Versdichtung Religion Motiv Vernunft Motiv England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511575617 0511575610 9780511508233 0511508239 9780511504457 0511504454

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