Milton's theology of freedom [electronic resource] / Benjamin Myers.
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TextSeries: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; 98.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2006.Description: xiv, 209 pSubject(s): - Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost
- Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Religion
- Free will and determinism in literature
- Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Liberty in literature
- Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Theology, Doctrinal, in literature
- Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- 17th century
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- PR3562 .M89 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-193) and indexes.
Introduction. Heresy and orthodoxy ; Continuities and discontinuities ; Contexts of Milton's theology ; Dead ideas ; Poetic theology -- The theology of freedom : a short history. Augustine ; Anselm of Canterbury ; Thomas Aquinas ; John Duns Scotus ; William of Ockham ; Martin Luther ; John Calvin ; Reformed orthodoxy ; Arminianism ; Amyraldism ; De doctrina christiana -- The satanic theology of freedom. Satan as heretic ; Divine tyranny ; Fatalism ; Devil writ large -- Predestination and freedom. Universal election ; Reprobation ; Predestined freedom -- The freedom of God. The free creator ; Arian freedom ; Divine and creaturely freedom -- Human freedom and the fall. Freedom and necessity ; Contingent freedom ; Contingence and theodicy ; A free fall ; Freedom enthralled -- Grace, conversion and freedom . Universal prevenient grace ; The conversion of Adam and Eve ; Continuing conversion.
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