Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon

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INDEX accommodation, theory of, 131, 137–41, 143, 149–50, 155–57 Acts, 58, 70 actuality, and potentiality, 99–100 Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 28 amanuenses, 18–20, 44–45 Ames, William, 22–25, 28–32, 47, 48, 52–53, 142–43, 172, 176 amor Dei. See love, God’s Anabaptists, 238 Ancient of Days, 116–17 Andrewes, Lancelot, 292n58 Animadversions (Milton), 270 Anselm, 54–56 Anthropomorphites, 141, 301n26 anthropopatheia, 129. See also passibility of God’s Antitrinitarianism, 217–18, 222, 224, 231, 255–56, 258–59, 262. See also Arianism Apology for Smectymnuus (Milton), 176–77, 327n75, 338n29 apophatic theology, 73, 77, 122, 291n49, 292n51 The Apostolical and True Opinion concerning the Holy Trinity (Biddle), 225 Aquinas, Thomas, 56–57 Areopagitica (Milton), 214, 233, 237 Arianism, 261–78; concept of, 263–65, 335n11, 336n14; De Doctrina Christiana and, 255, 272–77; doctrines commonly ascribed to, 265–67; Milton and, 269–78; Milton’s comments on, 238–40, 269–71; in Milton’s poetry, 278; opposition to, 262–69; Paradise Lost and, 251, 252, 254, 278; Socinianism conflated with, 224–26, 238, 320n15, 323n42 Aristotle, 25, 53, 56, 99 Arius, 262–65, 276, 336n14 Arminians, 238 Art of Logic (Artis Logicae) (Milton), 25, 48–49 Athanasius, 229, 231, 263–64 atheism. See belief/disbelief in God Augustine, 73, 135–38 baptism, 221 Bauthumely, Jacob, 6 Beardslee, John, 34 belief/disbelief in God: in Ames and Wolleb, 52–53; Anselm on, 55; Calvin on, 59; in De Doctrina Christiana, 63–69; in early church, 53 339 340 Index Berkeley, George, 230, 325n61 Best, Paul, 327n72 Bible: accommodation of God in, 131, 137–41, 143, 149–50; Ames’s references to, 31; figurative representation of God in, 138, 140; God’s self-revelation in, 144–46; interpretation of, 139–41, 144–50, 218–19, 239–41, 242–44, 303–4n41; Racovian Catechism and, 218–19; as source of Milton’s views on God, 23–24, 40–46, 67–69, 78–86, 144–46, 242–44; versions of, 43–45; Wolleb’s references to, 35, 37. See also Bible proof-texts; New Testament; Old Testament Bible proof-texts: Acts 17, 58, 70; 2 Chron. 20, 93; 1 Cor. 13, 79, 83–86; 2 Cor. 1, 113; 2 Cor. 6, 97; Dan. 7, 116–17; Deut. 6, 194; Deut. 28, 193; Deut. 32, 106–7; Exod. 3, 89; Exod. 3–4, 81; Exod. 15, 110; Exod. 23, 72; Exod. 24, 118; Exod. 25, 76; Exod. 33, 79–82; Exod. 34, 112; Ezek., 118–19; Gen. 14, 96; Gen. 22, 202; Heb. 6, 202; Heb. 11, 67; Isa. 6, 76, 79, 80, 82–83, 109–10, 294n67; Isa. 31, 91–92; Job 12, 69; Job 15, 110–11; Job 42, 94; John 1, 79, 83; John 4, 89–90; John 5, 79, 83, 107; John 6, 79, 83; 1 John 4, 113; Judg. 13, 121; Luke 1, 94; Luke 34, 91–92; Matt. 19, 94; Ps. 2, 193, 273; Ps. 14, 55–56, 63, 67–68; Ps. 33, 94; Ps. 42, 107; Ps. 115, 94; Ps. 135, 94; Rev. 1, 97; Rev. 4, 118, 120; Rom. 11, 89–90, 113–14; 1 Tim. 6, 78, 98 Biblia sacra polyglotta, 43–44, 84 Biddle, John, 222, 224, 225, 231 Blasphemy Act (1648), 222–23 Bloom, Harold, 7–8 Book of Daniel, 116–17 Book of Job, 69, 94, 110–11 Book of Revelation, 97, 118, 120 Bullinger, Heinrich, 218 Bunyan, John, 191–93 Burgess, Thomas, 332n103 Calvin, John: Commentaries upon the Book of Genesis, 138; Commentaries on the Prophet Malachi, 170; Commentary on the Psalms, 57, 171; on deus absconditus, 73–76; on existence of God, 57–59, 64; Institutes of the Christian Religion, 57–59, 75, 140; on odium Dei, 170–71, 176; on passibility of God, 138–41; Sozzini and, 218 Calvinists, 238 Campbell, Gordon, 48–49 canonicity of De Doctrina Christiana, 1, 11, 16 Carey, John, 44, 84–85 Catechesis, 218. See also Racovian Catechism Catholic Church, 35–36, 236–37, 240 Channing, William Ellery, 257–59, 333n108, 333n110 Chariot of Paternal Deitie, 176–83 Charles II, 236 Cheynell, Francis, 223 Christ. See Jesus Christ Christocentrism, 83, 98, 104. See also Jesus Christ Christus Deus (Skelton), 224 Chronicles, 93 Index 341 Chrysostom, John, 72 Church of England, 143 The City of God (Augustine), 136–37 Clement of Alexandria, 53, 73 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 331n95, 331–32n102 commonplaces, 23, 28, 30 communion...