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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... Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained is to defend God by taking him down from his throne . In pursuit of this argument , Bryson charts a new path in the study of Milton's prose and poetry , bridging the gap between the so - called " Neo ...
... Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained is to defend God by taking him down from his throne . In pursuit of this argument , Bryson charts a new path in the study of Milton's prose and poetry , bridging the gap between the so - called " Neo ...
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... Paradise Lost , has , almost from the day of its pub- lication , troubled many Christian readers who , to their dismay ( and often outrage ) see in his Father a character who is as far from the " good " god they believe in as Satan ...
... Paradise Lost , has , almost from the day of its pub- lication , troubled many Christian readers who , to their dismay ( and often outrage ) see in his Father a character who is as far from the " good " god they believe in as Satan ...
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... 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 is imagined ...
... 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 is imagined ...
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... 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 many modern ...
... 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 many modern ...
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... Paradise Lost are not the ex- clusive claims of an impersonal Absolute , an Aristotelian Unmoved Mover . They are the claims of exclusive personal deity , the claims of post - Hilkiah Yahweh , the claims of Jesus at John 14 : 6 . The ...
... Paradise Lost are not the ex- clusive claims of an impersonal Absolute , an Aristotelian Unmoved Mover . They are the claims of exclusive personal deity , the claims of post - Hilkiah Yahweh , the claims of Jesus at John 14 : 6 . The ...
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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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