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1 online resource |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Proclaiming the Word; Chapter 1: "Such harmony alone"; Chapter 2: Infernal Prophesying; Part II: Milton's Incarnate Reader; Chapter 3: The Greatest Metaphor; Chapter 4: Milton's Parable of Misreading; Chapter 5: Fashioning the True Pilot; Part III: Revolutionary Incarnations and the Metaphysics of Abundance; Chapter 6: The Perfect Seed of Christ; Chapter 7: Pageant and Anti-Pageant; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
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"In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Milton's imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic symbol, theological event, and narrative picture of humanity's potential, the Incarnation profoundly governs the way Milton structures his 1645 Poems, ponders the holy office of the pulpit, reflects on the ends of speech and language, interprets sacred scripture or secular texts, and engages in the radical politics of the Civil War and Interregnum. Richly drawing upon the disciplines of historical and postmodern theology, philosophical hermeneutics, theological aesthetics, and literary theory, Fleshly Tabernacles pursues the wide-ranging implications of the heterodox, perfectionist strain in Milton's Christology. Hampton illustrates how vibrant Christologies generated and shaped particular brands of anticlericalism, theories of reading and language, and political commitments of English nonconformist sects during the turbulent decades of the seventeenth century. Ranters and Seekers, Diggers and Quakers, Fifth monarchists and some Anabaptists - many of those identified with these radical groups proclaim that the Incarnation is primarily understood, not as a singular event of antiquity, but as a present eruption and charged manifestation within the life of the individual believer, such that faithful believers become "fleshly tabernacles" housing the Divine. The perfectionist strain in Milton's theology resonated in the works of the Independent preacher John Everard, the Digger Gerrard Winstanley, and the Quaker James Nayler. Fleshly Tabernacles intriguingly demonstrates how ideas of the incarnated Christ flourished in the world of revolutionary England, expressed in the notion that the regenerated human self could repair the ruins of church and state."--Project Muse |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Religion
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Milton, John 1608-1674 gnd |
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Incarnation in literature.
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
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Christianity and literature
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Incarnation in literature
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Religion
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Christentum
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Inkarnation Motiv
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Religion
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England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012025743 |
| ISBN |
0268081743 |
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9780268081744 |
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9780268158651 |
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0268158657 |
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