03679nam 2200733 450 991045682670332120200520144314.01-4426-8832-710.3138/9781442688322(CKB)2550000000019282(OCoLC)647921154(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382007(SSID)ssj0000478437(PQKBManifestationID)11343446(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478437(PQKBWorkID)10433936(PQKB)10282312(CaPaEBR)430795(CaBNvSL)slc00224390(MiAaPQ)EBC3268224(MiAaPQ)EBC4672611(DE-B1597)465382(OCoLC)1013944240(OCoLC)944176757(DE-B1597)9781442688322(Au-PeEL)EBL4672611(CaPaEBR)ebr11258270(EXLCZ)99255000000001928220160923h20082008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIn the anteroom of divinity the reformation of the angels from Colet to Milton /Feisal G. MohamedToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2008.©20081 online resource (257 p.) 0-8020-9792-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Table and Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. John Colet's Ecclesiology and Dionysian Thought -- 2. Hooker and Spenser on the Celestial Hierarchy: The Decline of a Tradition? -- 3. Donne's Ideated Angels -- 4. Angelic Hierarchy in Milton and His Contemporaries -- 5. Raphael, the Celestial Physician -- 6. Michael of Celestial Armies Prince -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Biblical PassagesIn the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period. Beginning with a discussion of John Colet's commentary on Dionysisus' twin hierarchies, Feisal G. Mohamed explores the significance of the Dionysian tradition to the conformism debate of the 1590s through works by Richard Hooker and Edmund Spenser. He then turns to John Donne and John Milton to shed light on their constructions of godly poetics, politics and devotion, and provides the most extensive study of Milton's angelology in more than fifty years. With new philosophical, theological, and literary insights, this work offers a contribution to intellectual history and the history of religion in critical moments of the English Reformation.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismAngels in literatureAngelsHistory of doctrinesChristianity and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryChristianity and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryReformationEnglandElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Angels in literature.AngelsHistory of doctrines.Christianity and literatureHistoryChristianity and literatureHistoryReformation820.9/38235309031Mohamed Feisal G(Feisal Gharib),1974-997802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456826703321In the anteroom of divinity2288410UNINA