Milton's Scriptural Theology: Confronting De Doctrina Christiana - Couverture rigide

Hale, John K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1641893400 ISBN 13 : 9781641893404

Editeur : Arc Humanities Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

John K. Hale is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of English at the University of Otago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Humanities Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1641893400
• ISBN 13: 9781641893404
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible