Milton’s Scriptural Theology : : Confronting De Doctrina Christiana / / John K. Hale.

Milton spoke of ‹i›De Doctrina‹/i› as “my best and most precious possession.” Through close reading of the Latin itself, John K. Hale assesses the work and its aim, its degrees of success and its by-products, as these reveal Milton at his “personal best.” While to historians or methodologists of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Borderlines           
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • FOREWORD: MILTON’S PERSONAL BEST
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DEDICATION
  • PRELIMINARIES: AUTHORSHIP, MEDIUM, AUDIENCE
  • 1. The Address to Readers: A Close Reading of Milton’s Epistle
  • PART 1: MATERIALS
  • 2. Axioms
  • 3. The Biblical Citations
  • 4. Working from Wollebius
  • 5. Named Theologians as Interlocutors
  • PART 2: ARTS OF LANGUAGE
  • 6. Philology
  • 7. The Pagan Allusions
  • 8. Person to Person— How Pronouns Contribute
  • PART 3: TRINITY
  • 9. Milton’s De Filio
  • 10. Theologies Compared
  • Appendix 1. Further Etymologies
  • Appendix 2. Hobbes and Dryden
  • Bibliography
  • Index