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By Paul Cefalu

Paul Cefalu's examine explores the connection among ethical personality and spiritual conversion within the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, in addition to in early glossy English Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises. Cefalu argues that early glossy Protestant theologians have been usually not able to include a coherent thought of functional morality into the order of salvation. Cefalu attracts on clean historicist theories of ideology and subversion, yet takes factor with historicist tendency to conflate regular and specific differences between texts. He argues that imaginitive literature, through advantage of its tendency to put characters in nearly actual moral quandaries, uniquely issues out the shortcoming of early sleek English Protestant theology to merge non secular conception and moral perform. This learn should still charm not just to literary critics and historians, but in addition to students drawn to the heritage of ethical theory.

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