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... John . However , Christian writers made their most important contribution to the paradise tradition by giving form and substance and historical validity to Adam and Eve and the garden in Eden . The early Chris- tian writers speculated ...
... John . However , Christian writers made their most important contribution to the paradise tradition by giving form and substance and historical validity to Adam and Eve and the garden in Eden . The early Chris- tian writers speculated ...
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... John Armstrong has traced an " alternative " paradise tradition including a small group of masterpieces " which do not seek to represent arcadian happiness but are , essentially , severe realizations of imaginative power , and so ...
... John Armstrong has traced an " alternative " paradise tradition including a small group of masterpieces " which do not seek to represent arcadian happiness but are , essentially , severe realizations of imaginative power , and so ...
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... John Milton was writing Paradise Lost , some European thinkers were engaged in heated controversy about the accuracy , authorship , and inspiration of the Scriptures . De- spite these arguments , Milton and most of his contemporaries ac ...
... John Milton was writing Paradise Lost , some European thinkers were engaged in heated controversy about the accuracy , authorship , and inspiration of the Scriptures . De- spite these arguments , Milton and most of his contemporaries ac ...
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... John Skinner , has said , their sin is presented as " some- thing intelligible , not needing explanation , not a mystery . " 6 The Yahwist writers did not have to face the problem of providing characterizations that would explain how ...
... John Skinner , has said , their sin is presented as " some- thing intelligible , not needing explanation , not a mystery . " 6 The Yahwist writers did not have to face the problem of providing characterizations that would explain how ...
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Contents
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3 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA | 38 |
4 THE MIDDLE AGES | 67 |
5 THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE | 89 |
6 THE LEGACY OF EDEN | 125 |
7 THE SEARCH FOR PARADISE | 188 |
8 THE NATURAL PARADISE THE CELESTIAL PARADISE AND THE INNER PARADISE | 234 |
9 THE FADING OF PARADISE | 269 |
NOTES | 291 |
INDEX | 319 |
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