John Milton's Paradise Lost in the Anti-Trinitarian Crisis 1674-1732: Heresy, Orthodoxy, Poetics

我的博士项目将研究约翰·米尔顿的《失乐园》（1674）对17世纪末和18世纪初那个时代的伟大异端的拥护者和反对者的影响：反三位一体主义，认为基督和上帝不是一回事。对米尔顿神学的研究主要集中在早期对米尔顿非正统信仰的影响上;对他诗歌接受的研究则集中在它在诗人或政治思想家中引起的争论上。没有一个彻底的现代研究来评价米尔顿在他的诗歌中发展的激进神学的遗产。利用档案和文学分析，我的项目将采取米尔顿的三个最早的读者作为案例研究，证明失乐园的意义，对双方的反三位一体的争议。它将第一次表明，米尔顿史诗中体现的神学，是诗人留给他的第一批读者的遗产的重要组成部分。

My doctoral project will examine the impact of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674) on later seventeenth and early eighteenth-century advocates and adversaries of the great heresy of the era: Anti-Trinitarianism, the argument that Christ and God were not one and the same. Scholarship on Milton's theology has predominantly focused on the earlier influences upon Milton's heterodox beliefs; scholarship on his poetry's reception has focused upon the debates it provoked among poets or political thinkers. There has been no thorough modern study which evaluates the legacy of the radical theology Milton developed in his poetry. Using archival and literary analysis, my project will take three of Milton's earliest readers as its case studies, demonstrating Paradise Lost's significance for those on both sides of the Anti-Trinitarian controversy. It will show, for the first time, that the theology embodied within Milton's epic poetry was a vital part of the poet's legacy to his first readers.