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Cosmological Models And The Christian Faith In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Jacob R. Taylor
Cosmological Models And The Christian Faith In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Jacob R. Taylor
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In this work the author argues that John Milton justifies the intelligibility and priority of Christian faith against modern revolutions of science in his epic poem Paradise Lost. Milton argues against scientists who choose to believe modern astronomy over cosmology. He argues that Christian faithfulness stands firm despite the crumbling of its medieval cosmological basis. This endurance of the faith is the primary scientific theme of the epic English poem.
Windows To The Divine: The Development Of Byzantine Art, Sam Klein
Windows To The Divine: The Development Of Byzantine Art, Sam Klein
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Byzantine art took significant inspiration form its Greco-Roman heritage but then distinguished itself through a shift in focus away from Hellenic realism and towards formal abstractions of Christian motifs. These conventions developed alongside political and theological turbulence to eventually influence a vast area of Asia Minor and Eastern Europe.