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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... critics ( C. S. Lewis , Stanley Fish , and others ) and the " Romantic " or " Satanist " critics ( Blake , Shelley , Empson , and others ) by reading Milton as engaged in a complex theodicy that rejects kingship as a proper way of ...
... critics ( C. S. Lewis , Stanley Fish , and others ) and the " Romantic " or " Satanist " critics ( Blake , Shelley , Empson , and others ) by reading Milton as engaged in a complex theodicy that rejects kingship as a proper way of ...
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... criticism . 4. Milton , John , 1608-1674 — Religion . 5 . Theology — History — 17th century . 6. God in literature . I. Title . PR3562.B75 2004 821'.4 — dc21 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2003012093 Contents Acknowledgments 6 ...
... criticism . 4. Milton , John , 1608-1674 — Religion . 5 . Theology — History — 17th century . 6. God in literature . I. Title . PR3562.B75 2004 821'.4 — dc21 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2003012093 Contents Acknowledgments 6 ...
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... critic committed to the goodness of the Father in Paradise Lost to ignore the darker implications of be- lief in a personal deity who is imagined in terms of omniscience and omnipotence . The problems with personal deity are manifold ...
... critic committed to the goodness of the Father in Paradise Lost to ignore the darker implications of be- lief in a personal deity who is imagined in terms of omniscience and omnipotence . The problems with personal deity are manifold ...
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... criticism ; however , this kind of critique is a double- edged razor , cutting Empson's detractors quickly and neatly in re- turn . The neo - Christian critics of the twentieth century , who regard Milton as " a champion of Christian ...
... criticism ; however , this kind of critique is a double- edged razor , cutting Empson's detractors quickly and neatly in re- turn . The neo - Christian critics of the twentieth century , who regard Milton as " a champion of Christian ...
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... critics color and even determine their analyses , Empson contended that the " opinions of attackers and defenders of ... critic you read , and critical opinion — from the beginning — has been ( and contin- ues to be ) sharply divided ...
... critics color and even determine their analyses , Empson contended that the " opinions of attackers and defenders of ... critic you read , and critical opinion — from the beginning — has been ( and contin- ues to be ) sharply divided ...
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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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