[Milton-L] Justify God?

[Michael Bauman]

Jeffery,
I suspect he wants to justify God's ways because those ways were sometimes under attack.  They still are, so the apologetic enterprise continues.  Because the attacks will likely never end, the defense has not be made for the last time -- though I doubt that God's defenders will elect to do it again in an epic format, especially in the age of shrunken text messages.

Michael Bauman
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From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu [milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of Horace Jeffery Hodges [jefferyhodges at yahoo.com]
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Subject: [Milton-L] Justify God?

As everyone knows, Milton gives this reason for composing Paradise Lost:

That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men. [PL 1.24-26]

(Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2008.)

Why does Milton want to justify God's ways to men?

Jeffery Hodges