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First Crossroad
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This chapter articulates the different ways by which philosophy and religion approach knowledge. The philosopher seems to ascribe intrinsic value to knowledge. The religious poet, by contrast, appears to instrumentalize it into an enabler of a deeper bond with God. Four features of Paradise Lost’s unique kind of poetry are presented as both promoting and expressing the latter stance to knowledge. These include (1) the manner whereby the poem’s language fights attempts to relate to it as if it were a transparent description, (2) the speaker’s humility (by presenting himself as a mouthpiece for the Muse rather than the begetter of knowledge), (3) the poem’s Latinism (one language hosting another mirrors the hosting being commended by the poem), and (4) the attempt to vitalize the reader’s relationship to her past (the poem’s attitude to history is shown to exemplify Niebuhr’s tri-part theory regarding the uniqueness of history’s experience in faith.
Title: First Crossroad
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This chapter articulates the different ways by which philosophy and religion approach knowledge.
The philosopher seems to ascribe intrinsic value to knowledge.
The religious poet, by contrast, appears to instrumentalize it into an enabler of a deeper bond with God.
Four features of Paradise Lost’s unique kind of poetry are presented as both promoting and expressing the latter stance to knowledge.
These include (1) the manner whereby the poem’s language fights attempts to relate to it as if it were a transparent description, (2) the speaker’s humility (by presenting himself as a mouthpiece for the Muse rather than the begetter of knowledge), (3) the poem’s Latinism (one language hosting another mirrors the hosting being commended by the poem), and (4) the attempt to vitalize the reader’s relationship to her past (the poem’s attitude to history is shown to exemplify Niebuhr’s tri-part theory regarding the uniqueness of history’s experience in faith.
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