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·弥尔顿的《失乐园》（1674）对后来17世纪和18世纪早期的大异端的倡导者和反对者的影响：反三位一体论，认为基督和上帝不是同一个人。关于弥尔顿神学的学术研究主要集中在早期对弥尔顿异端信仰的影响；关于他的诗歌被接受的学术研究主要集中在它在诗人或政治思想家之间引发的争论上。没有一个彻底的现代研究来评估弥尔顿在诗歌中发展的激进神学的遗产。通过档案和文学分析，我的项目将以弥尔顿最早的三位读者作为案例研究，展示《失乐园》对反三位一体论争论双方的重要性。这将首次表明，弥尔顿史诗中蕴含的神学思想，是这位诗人留给他的第一批读者的重要遗产。

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.