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Milton's Messiah - The Son of God in the Works of John Milton (Hardcover)
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Milton's Messiah - The Son of God in the Works of John Milton (Hardcover)
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Milton's Messiah provides the first comprehensive book-length
analysis of the nature and significance of the Son of God in
Milton's poetry and theology. The book engages with Biblical and
Patristic theology, Reformation and post-Reformation thought, and
the original Latin of the treatise De Doctrina Christiana, to argue
for a radical reassessment of Milton's doctrine of the atonement
and its importance for understanding Milton's poetics. In the
footsteps of Dennis Danielson's Milton's Good God, this study
responds to William Empson's celebrated portrayal of Milton's God
as a deity invoking dread and awe, and instead locates the
ultimately affirming presence of mercy, grace, and charity in
Milton's epic vision. Challenging the attribution of an Arian or
Socinian model to Milton's conception of the Son, this
interdisciplinary interpretation marshals theological,
philological, philosophical, and literary-critical methods to
establish, for the first time, not only the centrality of the Son
and his salvific office for Milton's oeuvre, but also the variety
of ways in which the Son's restorative influence is mediated
through the scenes, characters, actions, and utterances of Paradise
Lost and Paradise Regain'd. From the allegorical sites Satan
encounters as he voyages through the cosmos, to Eve's first taste
of the Forbidden Fruit, to the incarnate Son's perilous situation
poised atop the Temple pinnacle, Hillier illustrates how a
redemptive poetics upholds Milton's proclaimed purpose to assert
eternal providence and justify God's ways. This original study
should court debate and controversy alike over Milton's priorities
as a poet and a religious thinker.
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