Milton and Monotheism

Index

367 367 INDEX Abraham, 15 abstract godhead: Bolingbroke and, 205; criticisms of, 91–93; Hobbes and, 337n16; monotheism and, 11–15, 74, 100, 102, 107, 141, 278–79; rational religion and, 91–93, 110; representation and, 13–14, 85, 96, 107, 125, 141. See also aniconism accommodation, doctrine of, 125–31, 138, 141, 337n20, 340n46 Acontius, Giacomo, 186, 256–58, 261–63, 360n56, 360n57 Acts 13:33, 222, 355n11 Adam, in Paradise Lost, 132–42, 196, 229 Adamson, J. H., 188, 340n46 Addison, Joseph, 156, 158–59, 177, 181, 309 Ainsworth, Henry, 340n39 Albright, William Foxwell, 331n15 allegory, 38, 170, 314–19, 366n14 Allen, D. C., 76, 232, 238, 358n34, 359n43 Alter, Robert, 14–15, 322n20 angels: Christian poetry likened to, 175; in De doctrina Christiana, 339n36; deist rejection of, 208–09; eating of food by, 115–16, 118, 120; in Genesis 18, 106–07, 115–17, 121–23; gods vs., 3–4, 29–31, 71, 325n3; in Hebrew Bible, 208, 340n42; in Judges 13, 267–72; as machinery, 170; materiality of, 117–21; mystery and, 96; narrative and, 117–18; in Paradise Lost, 115–24, 144–68; in Samson Agonistes, 267–72; subjectivity of, 120; in van den Vondel’s Samson, 307 aniconism: Davenant and, 51; deism and, 9–10, 213; Freud on abstraction of deity, 11–12; Milton and, 308; monotheism and, 9–10, 12–14, 57, 308; second commandment and, 9, 13, 16, 40, 49, 51, 84, 100, 171, 312; and the sublime, 312 animal life, 89–90 An Impartial Account of the Word Mystery, 202 anthropomorphism, 192, 197, 351n46 anthropopathy, 126–27, 129, 198 anticlericalism, 81, 277, 333n26, 333n28, 344n36 Antitrinitarianism: latitudinarians and, 346n3; mathematics and, 192–93; Milton’s, 4, 188–90, 193–96, 216–18, 222–23, 226, 228, 230, 246, 258, 260–61, 324n33, 349n26, 350n40, 351n48; monotheism and, 187–88, 196; origins of, 256; Paradise Lost and, 112; Paradise Regained and, 22; rational religion and, 190–91, 199–200; Reformation and, 347n13; Samson Agonistes and, 22; scriptural interpretation and, 191, 350n32; Socinianism and, 8–9, 184–99, 257–58, 350n32; and the Son, 198–99, 219–20, 222, 240–41, 244; and toleration, 257–58, 260–61. See also Trinity Apollonius Tyaneus, 203 Areopagitica (Milton), 33, 108, 163, 258, 359n44 Arianism, 162, 186, 188, 203, 217, 222, 226, 355n10 Aristotle, 267 Arminianism, 108 Assmann, Jan, 17, 19–21, 28, 66, 68, 188, 198, 295–96, 299–301, 306, 368 Index 322n16, 323n28, 354n81; Moses the Egyptian, 212, 354n80 Athanasian Creed, 193–94, 354n3 Athanasianism, 191–94 atheism, 87, 93, 293 atomic science, 119–20 Aton, 11–14, 21, 97–98, 102, 196, 212–13, 324n32, 354n81 Auerbach, Erich, 14–15, 71, 117 Augustine, Saint, 217 Austin, Samuel, 40 Babington, Gervase, 116 Bacchae (Euripides), 270 Bailey, Nathan, 321n8 Barrow, Samuel, 156 Bauman, Michael, 189, 217, 348n22, 350n40 Baxter, Richard, 203, 276–77 Beardslee, John W., III, 321n11 Beelzebub, 58 Bennett, Joan, 334n45 Bentley, Richard, 163, 166–67 Berkowitz, David Sandler, 43 Best, Paul, 199 Bible, literal interpretation of, 127, 191–92, 205, 257, 259–60, 343n21, 347n13, 349n31, 350n32 Biddle, John, 186–87, 191–93, 195, 197–98, 200–201, 220, 257, 258, 261, 350n37; A Confession of Faith Touching the Holy Trinity, 186, 187, 355n9; The Faith of One God, 200–201, 351n46; The Testimonies of Irenaus, 355n7; A Twofold Catechism, 186, 192, 197–98, 351n46, 360n57 Blackmore, Richard, 172 Blount, Charles, 9, 163, 203; Anima mundi, 201; Oracles of Reason, 185, 201, 204; Religio laici, 81, 201, 204, 277, 353n73 Boileau, Nicolas, 55–56, 169, 171–73, 312, 365n7 Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Lord, 78, 86, 159–60, 164, 180, 182, 204–05, 207–13, 343n17; “Farther Reflections on the Rise and Progress of Monotheism,” 6–7, 183 Botwinick, Aryeh, 13, 22–23, 85, 139–41, 311, 324n35 Breasted, James Henry, 98 Broadbent, J. B., 64, 69, 102, 114, 163 Brown, George Spencer, 19 Brute, 42 Bryson, Michael, 338n24 Budick, Sanford, 322n15 Burden, Dennis, 338n24 Burke, Edmund, 310–14, 319 Bush, Douglas, 32, 101–02, 105 Butler, John Anthony, 81 Calvin, John, 79, 111, 116, 122, 126, 140, 228, 256, 337n17, 337n18, 338n26, 341n54 Cambridge Platonists, 88, 276, 346n5 Camden, William, 42 Campbell, Gordon, 323n29 Campbell, Lily, 40 Cartari, Vincenzo, 329n50 Castellio, Sebastien, 256 Catechesis ecclesiarum quae in Regno Poloniae, 186, 189 Catholicism, 51, 75, 83, 259–61, 333n28 Certain Verses Written by Several of the Author’s Friends; to Be Reprinted with the Second Edition of Gondibert, 56–57...