Imago Dei, "Filial Freedom," and Miltonic Theodicy

In a work published a year after Milton's death, Richard Baxter declares his belief that man so far like God himself, as to be a kind of first-determiner of many of his own Volitions and Nolitions, and that this freedom is part of Gods Natural Image in Man.' There are four things I would like to do in this paper: first, to suggest the importance to Milton of this traditional identification of the imago dei with human freedom; secondly to take a closer look at the model of human freedom he employs; thirdly to indicate what view of divine freedom implicit in his work; and finally to propose that Milton did not quite tie together these three aspects of his thought

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