Milton spoke of <i>De Doctrina</i> as “my best and most precious possession.” Through close reading of the Latin itself, John K. Hale assesses the work and its aim, its degrees of success and its by-products, as these reveal Milton at his “personal best.” While to historians or methodologists of theology his best might not seem the very best ever, this work was unutterably precious to Milton, and close reading reveals the personal dimension of Milton’s theology and the passion and energy of his mind in its acts of thought.
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series Information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Materials
- Chapter 2. Axioms
- Unstated Assumptions
- Protestantism
- Chapter 3. The Biblical Citations
- Citing Scripture
- Omissions
- Selections
- Changes and Additions
- Additions
- Predestination
- Eloquence
- Chapter 4. Working from Wollebius
- Doctrina
- Simple Intensification
- Quirks
- Personal Experience
- Reductiveness
- Unconscious Emphasis: Prudence and Prohairesis
- Working It Out, Then Shrugging It Off (I.17 and 18)
- Departing from Wolleb
- Chapter 5. Named Theologians as Interlocutors
- The Listing
- Frequency and Incidence
- Erasmus and Beza
- Placaeus
- Junius in De Filio
- Seldenus
- Zanchius
- Cameron
- Polanus
- Luther and Calvin
- Ludovicus Capellus
- Amesius
- Conclusions
- Part 2. Arts of Language
- Chapter 6. Philology
- Haeresis and Haereticus (Epistle, MS 4, Oxford, 8)
- Invalidations
- Natura and Fatum
- Elohim
- Singulars and Plurals Continued (I.5, MS 69i, Oxford, 166–67)
- Analusai (I.14, MS 179i, Oxford, 456–57)
- Persona (I.5 and I.14; MS 54 and 190–91; Oxford, 138–39 and 480–81)
- Incompatibles: Onah versus Res Turpis
- What Else?
- Chapter 7. The Pagan Allusions
- Aristotle
- Euripides
- Homer
- Greek Prose
- Virgil Continued
- Ovid
- Horace
- Conclusions
- Chapter 8 Person to Person—How Pronouns Contribute
- Grammar and Idioms
- Pronouns as Voices in the Chapters: Second-Person Fictions
- Second-Person Fictions (Continued)
- Intermingling of Third-Person Expressions
- Questions of Belonging
- Amesius Noster
- Conclusions
- Part 3. Trinity
- Chapter 9. Milton’s De Filio
- Scriptural Evidence: The Road Not Taken
- The Preface
- Generation
- How Style Contributes
- Eristic
- The Rhetoric
- The Johannine Comma (MS 59m, Oxford, 149)
- The Prize Passage: Locus Palmarius
- Glimpsing the Alternative
- Chapter 10. Theologies Compared
- Hail, Holy Light […]
- Actions and Theses
- Contrast Not the Only Relation
- John Creaser’s View
- The Underlying Question
- The Personal Impetus
- The Person within the Theology
- The Man in the Style
- Appendix 1: Further Etymologies
- Semper esse (I.2; MS 14i, Oxford, 36)
- Satan (I.9)
- Pepoithesis (MS 250f/251i, Oxford, 584, in I.20)
- Ekklesia (MS 366i, Oxford, 770)
- Clerus (I.29, MS 380, with Oxford, 788–89 with 793n.xi, and also MS 417m, Oxford, 842–43, with 853n.xv)
- Iusiurandum
- Blasphemia, Blasphemare (MS 561, II.6, Oxford, 1028–29)
- Sabbath (MS 573i, II.7, Oxford, 1044)
- Usury (II.14, MS 681i, Oxford, 1182)
- Appendix 2: Hobbes and Dryden
- Hobbes
- Dryden
- Reason
- Paul
- Father Simon’s Critical History of the Old Testament
- Bibliography
- Primary Texts
- Secondary Texts
- Index
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