[Milton-L] Re: Milton's Millenarian Perspective 1637-41.

[James Kelly]

Dear list members,

I am familiar with Cummins's excellent collection of essays, Milton and the Ends of Time but I write to ask if anyone help me concerning some specific points concerning Milton's views on the Millenium at around the time he writes the antiprelatical tracts? 

Is he a pre-millennialist believing that the millennium will follow the Second Coming of Christ? Or is he a post-millennialist believing that the thousand years reign will precede the Advent?

Finally, is there clarity on what time Milton takes the period 1637-1641 to be, according to a millenarian timescale? Is he living in the final stages of the end times with Satan unbound, and with Judgement Day imminent, or at some interval before?



Yours faithfully,

James Kelly