Poetic Grace for Whom?
This study examines the political implications of Protestant sola gratia (grace alone) theology in early modern English literature through close readings of four Protestant poets: Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, Abraham Cowley, and John Milton. It argues that, contrary to views of sola gratia as soc...
| Publicado en: | Religious Studies Review (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 583 - 586 |
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Jun2026
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