The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King.(Book Review)

From: Christianity and Literature | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King. By Michael Bryson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. ISBN 0-87413-859-0. Pp. 208. $43.50

In this work, Michael Bryson argues that Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are iconoclastic in nature; they are actually Milton's attempt to re-imagine God, to save God from the then popular Protestant conception of the Deity: a glory-seeking, spiteful, vengeful, authoritarian king (9, 110). These qualities, Bryson claims, properly qualify God as a tyrant according to Milton's definition of the term. "The Father is not ...

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