"The first Christians faced two hermeneutical challenges of fundamental importance. Firstly, that of interpreting the Old Testament and secondly, how to cope with the Greek legacy embedded in Homer. The latter is not explicitly raised in the New Testament but since the art of in…
La 4e de couverture indique : "What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions t…
"What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the reli…
Milton and Monotheism
by Project Muse, Stoll, Abraham Dylan
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
"Examining Milton's poetry in the context of many debates swirling around polytheism and monotheism, this study demonstrates the profound differences between doctrinal discourse and narrative poetry and how neither is, individually, able to fully represent Milton's monotheism--o…
Polytheism and "truest poesie"--The discourse of monotheism : occult monotheism and the abstract godhead -- God and Genesis 18 in Paradise lost -- The war in heaven and deism -- The discourse of monotheism : Socinianism and deism -- The Son after the Trinity -- Revelation and Sa…