context of religion + milton Flashcards
what does prelapsarian mean
how perfect eden was before the fall
what did milton believe about mankind
that we are all descended from adam and eve
catholics believed … was the cause the fall
the devil
what teaching did reformed protestants follow about the fall
fall was desired by god’s supreme power, to make humankind dependent on christs salvation
what did milton compare the marriage contract to
political contract between king and his people
what book that he wrote shows that milton believed in remarriage and divorce
doctrine and discipline of divorce in 1643
quote on creation from his book that draws on St Paul passage
who can be ignorant that woman was created for man, and not man for woman?
milton departed from earlier religious epics and adopted ideas from …
jacobean and elizabethan stage
what did milton say about his daughters
they only needed one tongue whereas he knew lots of languages
when was paradise lost published
1667
what did miltons 2nd and 3rd wives enable him to have
a more egalitarian view of the relation between man, woman and god
when did he write areopagitica and what did this reinforce
1644, defending free speech and rejection of censorship
