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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 October 2009
      10 September 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511549335
      9780521630658
      9780521100939
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549335
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton - who opposed infant baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of polygamy - should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical opinions. This volume investigates aspects of Milton's works inconsistent with conventional beliefs, whether in terms of seventeenth-century theology or the common assumptions of Milton scholars. Contributors situate Milton and his writings within his specific historical circumstances, paying special attention to Milton's pragmatic position within seventeenth-century religious controversy. The volume's four sections deal with heretical theology, heresy's consequences, heresy and community, and readers of heresy; their common premise is that Milton, as poet, thinker and public servant, eschewed set beliefs and regarded indeterminacy and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.

    Awards

    Winner of the 1999 Milton Society of America Irene Samuel Memorial Award

    Reviews

    "These outstanding essays dislodge the tenacious assumption that Milton's religious thought is orthodox." John Childs, Albion

    "...splendid..." Larry R. Isitt, Church History

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