Introduction : scriptural reasoning -- Scriptural reasoning in Milton's prose -- Reason, rhetoric, and educational reading -- Monism and Protestant toleration -- Biblicist rhetoric and ontology in Paradise lost -- Divine justice and divine filiation -- Divine kingship -- Rational battle -- Rational allegory and gender -- Biblicist poetics and hermeneutic ethics -- Biblical metanarrative as rule of faith -- Paradise regained as rule of charity -- Samson agonistes as personal drama

1. Milton
2. John
3. 1608-1674 -- Religion
4. Milton
5. John
6. 1608-1674 -- Political and social views
7. Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
8. Christian poetry
9. English -- Early modern
10. 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
11. Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century
12. Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity