[Milton-L] The Son's knowledge

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

Jim wrote:
 
"we're still left with decisions about how best to read specific passages, which I think are misread if bent primarily toward theological purposes"
 
This sounds like the sort of thing that I might say about particular biblical passages -- say in the Psalms or Proverbs -- but I find myself hesitating to say it about Paradise Lost, for Milton had such an explicitly theological aim in composing it.
 
So, I'm wondering if an example could be given of how a misreading might occur if a passage in PL were to be misread by being "bent primarily toward theological purposes."
 
If you mean misread because of theological eisegesis on the part of a reader, then I agree, of course, but if you mean misreading through reading a passage in PL primarily for theological exegesis, then an example would help.
 
Jeffery Hodges

--- On Sat, 10/25/08, John Rumrich <rumrich at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

From: John Rumrich <rumrich at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] The Son's knowledge
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 11:40 AM


Agreed.  It's an epic narrative, not a theological treatise.


John





On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:25 PM, James Rovira wrote:

I'm not going to argue with the issue of Milton's Arianism, but once settling this point we're still left with decisions about how best to read specific passages, which I think are misread if bent primarily toward theological purposes.  
Jim R  


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:49 PM, John Rumrich <rumrich at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:


For what it's worth, Larry Isitt's posts are spot on.  The Son is not omniscient, and Milton in his epic and his theological treatise is decidedly and unambiguously antitrinitarian (and, as Prof. Skulsky says, Arian, categorically Arian).  

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