Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between ethical character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Conformist and Puritan sermons,...
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Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between ethical character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-221) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: English Protestant moral theory and regeneration; Chapter 1 Shame, Guilt, and Moral Character in Early Modern English Protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Chapter 2 The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book II; Chapter 3 Conformist and puritan Moral Theory: from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism
Chapter 4 The elect body in Pain: Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and proseChapter 5 Absent neighbors in George Herbert's ""The Church,: or why Agape becomes Caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry; Chapter 6 Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries; Epilogue: theorizing early modern moral selfhood; Notes; Index
