The Works of John Milton, Vols. XIV-XVII. De Doctrina Christiana.

1936 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Kelley ◽  
Charles R. Sumner ◽  
James Holly Hanford ◽  
Waldo Hilary Dunn
Keyword(s):  
John Milton ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana

“Against the Law: Milton's (Anti?) nomianism in De Doctrina Christiana”

2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92
Author(s):  
Christopher John Donato
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Milton ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
The Law

This essay seeks to put to rest the notion that John Milton was an antinomian, by offering a concise summation of the relevant chapters of De doctrina Christiana that discuss his views on the covenants, the law and the gospel, and Christian liberty.1 Defining antinomian is a difficult task, as its manifestations throughout history have not been monolithic.2 During the seventeenth century in England, two kinds, broadly speaking, existed: 1) doctrinal antinomianism; and 2) licentious antinomianism.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Dustin D. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
John Milton ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth

The introductory chapter elaborates definitions of two opposed but entangled poetic tendencies, calling one mortalist and the other spiritualist. It draws extended examples from John Milton (particularly from Paradise Lost [1667] and De Doctrina Christiana); from Edward Young (especially from Night Thoughts [1742–6], identified as the poem central to the study); and from several late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone poets, including Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael Symmons Roberts, Danez Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and Kevin Young. Some of these writers, the chapter argues, surprisingly keep alive a poetics of disembodiment derived from the Enlightenment. The introduction ends with a discussion of some relevant questions in literary criticism (concerning materialism, Pre-Romanticism, historical poetics, and lyric studies) and then a personal word about the author’s perspective on the spiritualities explored in the book.

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