The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as KingUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 208 The Tyranny of Heaven argues for a new way of reading the figure of Milton's God, contending that Milton rejects kings on earth and in heaven. Though Milton portrays God as a king in Paradise Lost, he does this neither to endorse kingship nor to recommend a monarchical model of deity. Instead, he recommends the Son, who in Paradise Regained rejects external rule as the model of politics and theology for Milton's fit audience though few. The portrait of God in Paradise Lost serves as a scathing critique of the English people and its slow but steady backsliding into the political habits of a nation long used to living under the yoke of kingship, a nation that maintained throughout its brief period of liberty the image of God as a heavenly king, and finally welcomed with open arms the return of a human king. Michael Bryson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. |
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... Father , or simply God , the ancient Mesopotamian deity first described in writing by a desert - wandering people ... Fathers as Hyppolytus , Tertullian , and Augustine , " Gnostic " doubts about the Christian God have resolutely refused ...
... Father , or simply God , the ancient Mesopotamian deity first described in writing by a desert - wandering people ... Fathers as Hyppolytus , Tertullian , and Augustine , " Gnostic " doubts about the Christian God have resolutely refused ...
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... Father a character who is as far from the " good " god they believe in as Satan himself . Certainly , Milton's Fa- ther has historically challenged and puzzled readers — both devout and otherwise — for long enough that to insist on the ...
... Father a character who is as far from the " good " god they believe in as Satan himself . Certainly , Milton's Fa- ther has historically challenged and puzzled readers — both devout and otherwise — for long enough that to insist on the ...
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... Father in Paradise Lost his sublime artistic rendering of the execrable tendency to conceive of God in Satanic terms . The Father is not Milton's illustration of how God is , but Milton's scathing critique of how , all too often , God ...
... Father in Paradise Lost his sublime artistic rendering of the execrable tendency to conceive of God in Satanic terms . The Father is not Milton's illustration of how God is , but Milton's scathing critique of how , all too often , God ...
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... Father of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained is closer to this conception of Yahweh than to the above- mentioned images of Jesus . The fundamental difference between the God - figures of Milton's texts and the God ( s ) envisioned by ...
... Father of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained is closer to this conception of Yahweh than to the above- mentioned images of Jesus . The fundamental difference between the God - figures of Milton's texts and the God ( s ) envisioned by ...
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... Father in Paradise Lost speaks ; this simple fact places the Father firmly within the tradition of personal deity . In some traditions God may be that upon which nothing can be predicated , an unrepresentable tran- scendent absolute ...
... Father in Paradise Lost speaks ; this simple fact places the Father firmly within the tradition of personal deity . In some traditions God may be that upon which nothing can be predicated , an unrepresentable tran- scendent absolute ...
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His Tyranny Who Reigns The Biblical Roots of Divine Kingship and Miltons Rejection of Heavns King in Prose and Poetry | 42 |
Who durst defy th Omnipotent to Arms Satans Fall from Hero to King | 77 |
That far be from thee Divine Evil Justification and the Evolution of the Son from WarriorKing to Hero | 112 |
Tempt not the Lord thy God The End of Kingship and the Awareness of Divine Similitude in Paradise Regained | 148 |
Notes | 171 |
Works Cited | 195 |
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