Praise disjoined : changing patterns of salvation in 17th-century English literature

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Introduction / William P. Shaw

Revolution, restoration, and literature / Christopher Hill

"Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?" : the role of Jehu (2 Kings 9-10) in seventeenth-century religious and political literature / Laura Ballard Kennelly

The house of love : rhetoric and salvation in the seventeenth century / Jean Dietz Moss

Mothers in Israel : the Puritan rhetoric of childbearing / Margaret Olofson Thickstun

Secular fall and redemption in Hobbes's Leviathan / Leo Rauch

Macbeth and The tempest : the dark side of Prospero's magic / Richard S. Ide

Ben Jonson's libertine Catholicism / T. Wilson Hayes

John Donne and salvation through grace / George Klawitter

Interpretive authority in Donne's Biathanatos / Meg Lota Brown

Salvation and damnation in Divine meditations of John Donne / Barry Spurr

"Impute this idle talke" : the l̀eaven' body of Donne's "Holy sonnet III" / M. Thomas Hester

God's ape and Christ the all-heal : salvation and damnation in the vegetable world / Charlotte F. Otten

Salvation under covenant : Herbert's poetry and Puritan sermons / Jeanne Clayton Hunter

"Artillerie" : Herbert's strange warfare / Robert Thomas Fallon

Semiotics of the sacrament in Edward Taylor's Preparatory meditations / Ivy Schweitzer

Human and divine reconciliation in Paradise lost, X-XI : the strategy of Milton's structure / Cheryl H. Fresch

The banqueting scene in Paradise regained : Milton's temptation to the anti-Puritan appetite / Alinda Sumers