
In the Anteroom of Divinity
The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton
Feisal Mohamed(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Will be published approx. on 27. December 2008
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-8020-9792-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period. Beginning with a discussion of John Colet's commentary on Dionysisus' twin hierarchies, Feisal G. Mohamed explores the significance of the Dionysian tradition to the conformism debate of the 1590s through works by Richard Hooker and Edmund Spenser. He then turns to John Donne and John Milton to shed light on their constructions of godly poetics, politics and devotion, and provides the most extensive study of Milton's angelology in more than fifty years.
With new philosophical, theological, and literary insights, this work offers a contribution to intellectual history and the history of religion in critical moments of the English Reformation.
With new philosophical, theological, and literary insights, this work offers a contribution to intellectual history and the history of religion in critical moments of the English Reformation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9792-7 (9780802097927)
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Person
Feisal G. Mohamed is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.