Predestination and freedom in Milton's Paradise Lost

John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) offers a highly creative seventeenth-century reconstruction of the doctrine of predestination, a reconstruction which both anticipates modern theological developments and sheds important light on the history of predestinarian thought. Moving beyond t...

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Main Author: Myers, Ben 1978- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
In: Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-80
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