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Saving God, Robert Masson
Saving God, Robert Masson
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
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Paradise Lost And The Concept Of Creation, Kent Lehnhof
Paradise Lost And The Concept Of Creation, Kent Lehnhof
English Faculty Articles and Research
On his visit to Eden, Raphael informs Adam and Eve that the universe was not created ex nihilo but rather de deo: everything was fashioned from out of the singular substance of God. This consubstantial connection to God proves universally ennobling by conferring upon each existent a divine origin and a divine composition. Milton's materialist monism, however, prevents him from participating in orthodox ideas of God that differentiate deity from all else on the basis of a divine ousia unique to him. Unable to locate God's divinity in a material difference, Milton sets God off from every other existent on …