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The religious views of John Milton influenced many of his works focusing on the nature of religion and of the divine. He differed in important ways from the Calvinism with which he is associated, particularly concerning the doctrines of grace and predestination. The unusual nature of his own Protestant Christianity has been characterized as both Puritan and Independent.[1]

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Religious views of John Milton

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The religious views of John Milton influenced many of his works focusing on the nature of religion and of the divine. He differed in important ways from...

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John Milton

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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank...

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Religious views of Isaac Newton

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sent to John Locke in which he disputed the existence of the Trinity was never published. In 2019, John Rogers stated, "Heretics both, John Milton and Isaac...

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Early life of John Milton

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radical views. Milton's parents were John Milton, Sr. (1562–1647), a composer and scrivener, and his wife Sara Jeffrey (1572–1637). John Milton, Sr.'s...

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Religious views of Charles Darwin

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gave "quite fairly his impressions of my father's views", but took issue with any suggestion of similar religious views, saying "My father's replies implied...

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Areopagitica

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Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet...

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Milton Friedman

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Milton Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/ ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize...

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List of Puritan poets

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verse of their age. John Milton (1608–1674), most famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), was an English poet with religious beliefs emphasizing...

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Fasting in religion

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Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02544-7. "Lent: 40 Days of Spiritual Renewal"...

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Religious tolerance

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towards religious dissent"., and ecclesiastical tolerance, concerned with the degree of diversity tolerated within a particular church. John Milton (1608–1674)...

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Edward Phillips

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Although he did not share Milton's religious and political views, and seems, to judge from the free character of his Mysteries of Love and Eloquence (1658)...

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Milton Keynes

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Milton Keynes (/kiːnz/ KEENZ) is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of...

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Fornication

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forsaking of God for idols". Fornicated as an adjective is still used in botany, meaning "arched" or "bending over" (as in a leaf). John Milton plays on...

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Defensio Secunda

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Secunda was a 1654 political tract by John Milton, a sequel to his Defensio pro Populo Anglicano. It is a defence of the Parliamentary regime, then controlled...

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Lycidas

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"Lycidas" (/ˈlɪsɪdəs/) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King...

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Samson Agonistes

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tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regained in 1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise...

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Adam Smith

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nature of Smith's religious views. His father had shown a strong interest in Christianity and belonged to the moderate wing of the Church of Scotland...

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David Hume

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religion, Hume's personal views have been the subject of much debate. Some modern critics have described Hume's religious views as agnostic or have described...

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Robert Overton

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republican and religious Independent who sympathised with the Fifth Monarchists, like others with similar views he opposed the establishment of The Protectorate...

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Irenicism

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Influence (1999), p. 146 and p. 175. Anthony Milton, ’The Unchanged Peacemaker’? John Dury and the politics of Irenicism in England, 1628–1643, p. 96 in...

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Thomas Paine

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of early 18th-century British Deism Paine wrote the first part of The Age of Reason (1793–1794). Paine's religious views as expressed in The Age of Reason...

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Religious trauma syndrome

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investment in positive views of religion. Institutional betrayal, first at the hands of beloved religious communities, second at the hands of a world that upholds...

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