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A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. EASTWARD IN EDEN 3 9 2. " SUCH PLEASING LICENCE " 19 3. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA 38 4. THE MIDDLE AGES 67 5. THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE 89 6. THE ...
A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. EASTWARD IN EDEN 3 9 2. " SUCH PLEASING LICENCE " 19 3. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA 38 4. THE MIDDLE AGES 67 5. THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE 89 6. THE ...
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A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. INTRODUCTION THE EARTHLY PARADISE , so variously interpreted from primi- tive myth to modern psychology , is at the heart of much of the thought and literature of the sixteenth and ...
A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. INTRODUCTION THE EARTHLY PARADISE , so variously interpreted from primi- tive myth to modern psychology , is at the heart of much of the thought and literature of the sixteenth and ...
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A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. of paradise is similar to or different from the conceptions of his predecessors , contemporaries , and successors , both commentators and poets , and how Milton's Paradise fits into the ...
A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. of paradise is similar to or different from the conceptions of his predecessors , contemporaries , and successors , both commentators and poets , and how Milton's Paradise fits into the ...
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A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. since typology was closely associated with a historical interpre- tation of Scripture . Milton's poetic and dramatic embodiment of these conceptions of the historical paradise is only one ...
A Historical Study of Eden Joseph Ellis Duncan. since typology was closely associated with a historical interpre- tation of Scripture . Milton's poetic and dramatic embodiment of these conceptions of the historical paradise is only one ...
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... 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 about the nature and life of paradise , de- veloped the concepts of man's original ...
... 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 about the nature and life of paradise , de- veloped the concepts of man's original ...
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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