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Looking into providences designs and trials in Paradise Lost / Raymond B. Waddington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages ): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442696068
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR3562 .L665 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Memory and the art of composition -- Satan's Machiavellian enterprise : force and fraud -- Providence working : the son and the adversary -- Possessing Eve : Tobias and Sarah in Eden -- Murder one : blood, soul, and mortalism -- Providential design : the death and conversion of Adam.
Subject: "What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or designs that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the trials, or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters. Waddington situates the poem within the context of providentialism's centrality to seventeenth-century thought and life, arguing that Milton's own conception of providence was deeply influenced by the theology of Jacob Arminius. Using Milton's Arminian conception of free will, he then looks at the providential trials experienced by angels and humans. Finally, the work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical."--Jacket.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR3562 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn962352901

Includes bibliographies and index.

Providence and providences -- Memory and the art of composition -- Satan's Machiavellian enterprise : force and fraud -- Providence working : the son and the adversary -- Possessing Eve : Tobias and Sarah in Eden -- Murder one : blood, soul, and mortalism -- Providential design : the death and conversion of Adam.

"What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or designs that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the trials, or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters. Waddington situates the poem within the context of providentialism's centrality to seventeenth-century thought and life, arguing that Milton's own conception of providence was deeply influenced by the theology of Jacob Arminius. Using Milton's Arminian conception of free will, he then looks at the providential trials experienced by angels and humans. Finally, the work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical."--Jacket.

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