Author : Michael Bryson
Release : 2004
Genre : Christian poetry, English
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The Tyranny of Heaven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tyranny of Heaven write by Michael Bryson. This book was released on 2004. The Tyranny of Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tyranny of Heaven argues for a new way of reading the figure of Milton's God, contending that Milton rejects kings on earth and in heaven. Though Milton portrays God as a king in Paradise Lost, he does this neither to endorse kingship nor to recommend a monarchical model of deity. Instead, he recommends the Son, who in Paradise Regained rejects external rule as the model of politics and theology for Milton's fit audience though few. The portrait of God in Paradise Lost serves as a scathing critique of the English people and its slow but steady backsliding into the political habits of a nation long used to living under the yoke of kingship, a nation that maintained throughout its brief period of liberty the image of God as a heavenly king, and finally welcomed with open arms the return of a human king. Michael Bryson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.