Milton's Scriptural Reasoning

Phillip J. Donnelly is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors College at Baylor University, where he teaches in the Great Texts Program and the English Department.

• Preface and acknowledgments; Abbreviations and editions; 1. Introduction: scriptural reasoning; Part I. Scriptural Reasoning in Milton's Prose: 2. Reason, rhetoric, and educational reading; 3. Monism and Protestant toleration; Part II. Biblicist Rhetoric and Ontology in Paradise Lost: Part II introduction; 4. Divine justice and divine filiation; 5. Divine kingship; 6. Rational battle; 7. Rational allegory and gender; Part III. Biblicist Poetics and Hermeneutic Ethics: Part III introduction; 8. Biblical metanarrative as rule of faith; 9. Paradise Regained as rule of charity; 10. Samson Agonistes as personal drama; Notes; Subject index; Index of scripture references.

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