In the Anteroom of Divinity : : The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton / / Feisal Mohamed.

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• VerfasserIn: Mohamed, Feisal,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period. Beginning with a discussion of John Colet's commentary on Dionysisus' twin hierarchies, Feisal G. Mohamed explores the significance of the Dionysian tradition to the conformism debate of the 1590s through works by Richard Hooker and Edmund Spenser. He then turns to John Donne and John Milton to shed light on their constructions of godly poetics, politics and devotion, and provides the most extensive study of Milton's angelology in more than fifty years. With new philosophical, theological, and literary insights, this work offers a contribution to intellectual history and the history of religion in critical moments of the English Reformation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Table and Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. John Colet's Ecclesiology and Dionysian Thought -- 2. Hooker and Spenser on the Celestial Hierarchy: The Decline of a Tradition? -- 3. Donne's Ideated Angels -- 4. Angelic Hierarchy in Milton and His Contemporaries -- 5. Raphael, the Celestial Physician -- 6. Michael of Celestial Armies Prince -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Biblical Passages