As Jesus Tends to Divinity in Paradise Regained

Mathematical Limits and the Arian Son

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ID20056829
AuthorsRachel Trubowitz (0000-0002-7423-1392, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages109-128
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMilton Now (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137383105_6
OpenAlexW2500292844
ISBN9781137383105
LanguageEN
References cited18

Milton's version of the Arian heresy has long prompted vigorous debate, nowhere more so perhaps than in the poet's characterization of Jesus in Paradise Regained. In 1959, William B. Hunter, Jr. provocatively proclaimed that "we may positively assert that Milton was not an Arian," inviting fierce reprisals from Maurice Kelly, Barbara Lewalski, and Christopher Hill, among others.1 Whereas anti-Arians, such as C. A. Patrides, defended the orthodoxy of Milton's religious beliefs (against the evidence in De Doctrina), Lewalski argued that Milton's view of the Son in the brief epic is not at all strictly Trinitarian: "The humanity of Jesus is stressed throughout Paradise Regained" as is "the concept that 'all men are sons of God.'"2 In her magisterial biography of Milton, Lewalski maintains: "Milton's Arianism is central to this poem."3 Building on Lewalski, John Rogers argues that the scope of Milton's religious radicalism in Paradise Regained extends well beyond his Arianism: Milton not only repudiates the Doctrine of the Trinity but also orthodox Christianity in its entirety.4 KeywordsSeventeenth CenturyGolden RuleAnalytic GeometryParadise LostMathematical InnovationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Art · Christianity · Divinity · Doctrine · Heresy · Humanity · Literature · Orthodoxy · Paradise · Poetry · Theology · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies

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