Milton's Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason is But Choosing”

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269 Index Abdiel, 95, 151; debate with Satan, 90–92, 153, 225 accommodation, 83, 88 Achinstein, Sharon, 58 Adam, 103, 153, 154; banishment of, 25–26, 28, 154; conversations with God, 78, 87–88, 124–25, 227; and Creation myth, 116, 118–27, 161–62, 170–71; and Eve’s creation, 123–28, 161–62, 175, 255n8; and gender hierarchy, 121–23, 127–29; and God’s image, xxiii, 175–77, 257n40; and God’s redemption, 96–97; judgment of Eve by, 153, 171; repentance and return of, xii, 184; spiritual dependence on Eve, 177–78, 181 air, 221, 260n16 Althusser, Louis, 235 Ames, William, 160 Amner, John, 22–23, 27, 29 annunciations, 23, 26–30 apocatastasis, 213–14 Areopagitica, 71, 81; truth in, 8, 15, 240n8; violence and dismemberment in, 5, 7–8, 15 Arianism, 82 Arminianism, 8, 82, 105, 240n9 army, English, 65–66 art: literary, 235; primitive, 54–55; and reason, 57; romantic pathos of, 46–47; and worship, 29 Artemidorus, 44 Ayers, Robert W., 62 Babylonian exile, 18–19 Bal, Mieke, 121 Barbour, Hugh, 164, 257n36 Bassano, Francesco, 20 Bate, Jonathan, 59 Beckett, Samuel, 46 Bennett, Joan, 188 Berchem, Nicolaes, 20 Bible. See Scripture biblical literalism, xxi, 80, 83, 99 Blake, William, 119 Blamires, Harry, 102 Blythe, Joan, 24 Bond, Edward, 36 Book of Common Prayer, 240n8 books and reading, xxv, 228–29, 230, 233, 235 Bradstreet, Anne, xi Brahe, Tycho, 114 Broadbent, J. B., 109 Bryson, Michael, xvi Burrough, Edward, 163 Bush, Douglas, 261–62n6 “A Call...to Repentance” (Nayler), 169 Calvin, John/Jean, xxiii, 160, 162, 255n8 Calvinism, 105, 139, 162, 163 270 Index Campion, Thomas, 18 Capel, Lord, 64 Carew, Thomas, 18 censorship, 7, 112–13 charity, 83–84, 85, 88, 93, 99 Charles I, 61, 66–67, 235 Charles II, xii Christian Doctrine. See De doctrina Christiana Christianity, 40, 42, 164, 213 Cicero, 69 classicism, 36, 42, 263n15 clothing and dress, xii, 208 community, 184, 201, 203 Comus, 253n7 Concerning Sons and Daughters (Fox), 165 conversation, 190, 191–92, 200–01, 203 Copernicanism, 112; Milton and, 108; and Ptolemaic system, 109, 114, 120; Raphael and, 105, 106, 108, 113, 120 Corns, Thomas N., 106 Corum, Richard, 109 cosmology, 103–04, 105, 109, 116, 120 Creation myth: Adam and, 116, 118–27, 161–62, 170–71; competing versions of in Genesis, 103–04, 112–13, 114–16, 119, 120–22, 131; of Eve, 118–19, 127–28, 161–62, 170, 175, 227, 255n8; gendering of, 115, 118–19, 160; Milton revision of, 116, 160, 161–62; Raphael account of, 109–10, 117–18, 119, 128–29, 130–31, 175–76; rival hermeneutics in Paradise Lost of, 108–11, 112–13, 117–26 Cromwell, Oliver, 28, 62, 68 Cromwell, Richard, 69 culture, 16, 29, 38, 235; knowledge of death and, 37; myth and, 119, 132; punishment and revenge in, 144 Curry, Walter Clyde, 106, 111 D’Addario, Christopher, xvi Daiches, David, 33 Dalila, 12–13, 187, 189, 193–98 Danielson, Dennis, 108, 109 Dante, 155, 253n13 David, Gerard, 20 De architectura (Vitruvius), x death, 152, 202; Lycidas on, 35–42, 47; and punishment, 152; and soul, 40, 41–42, 50 De doctrina Christiana, 72, 82, 117, 151, 260n9; on Christian liberty, 84; on correct use of Scripture, xxi, 79–80; on Eve’s connection to God, 161, 178; on indwelling Spirit, 80–81 Defensio pro populo Anglicano: attacks Salmasius Latin, 61–62; composition of, 245n9; defense of tyrannicide in, 66–67; definition of army in, 65–66; dialectic of, xx, 58–59, 64; on factions, 62, 66, 67, 70–71; latinitas of, 59, 60, 70; 1658 revision to, xx, 58, 59, 61, 68–69, 70, 72 Defensio regia (Salmasius), 59–64, 66 Defensio secunda, 58, 60, 68, 71 Destabilizing Milton: “Paradise Lost” and the Poetics of Incertitude (Herman), xvi dialectic, 57–59, 63, 64, 67, 68, 71, 72 dismemberment, 4; in Lycidas, 4, 5–7, 15; truth and, 10, 13–14 divine analogy, 110–11 divine image: Adam and, 175–77, 257n40; Eve and, 178–79, 180; gendering of, 160–62; Milton on, xxiii, 162–63, 174–75; Quakers on, 163–64; women and, 160, 171. See also God divine revelation, 77, 117, 118, 119. See also inspiration; Scripture divorce: Matthew 19:3–9 on, 80, 84, 173–74; Milton on, 82, 226–27 Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 80, 226–27 Index 271 Donne, John, 169 dreams, 97–98, 180...