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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hale, John K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Borderlines
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781641893411; 9783110661521; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610369; 9783110606348
• DOI: 10.1515/9781641893411?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John K. Hale.

Milton spoke of De Doctrina as "my best and most precious possession" (haec, quibus nihil melius aut pretiosius habeo). In this book, John K. Hale confronts De Doctrina as Milton's "best", and in many senses personal, contribution to theology. Its theology is distinctive in several unorthodoxies, and their zestful advocacy; and in some orthodoxies too, like his measured account of Predestination. At the very least, De Doctrina is Milton's one and only worked-out Credo. And it figures, albeit belatedly, in histories of the great mid-century Trinitarian debate: it is on the wider map of theology; it counts. Through close reading of the Latin itself, the author assesses the work and its aim, its degrees of success and its by-products, as these reveal Milton at his "personal best." While to a candid appraisal-or to historians or methodologists of theology-his best might not seem the very best ever, this work remains unutterably precious to Milton, and close reading reveals the passion and energy of his mind in its acts of thought. To understand the personal dimension of Milton's theology is to understand, and evaluate, his mind in action.