Tag Archives: Paradise Lost

Erotic Love, a Window into God

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2021

Some Christian see a clash between sex and love. Dante and Milton found ways to reconcile them.

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Impeachment and the Scarlet Letter

By Robin Bates | Published: February 9, 2021

“The Scarlet Letter” provides several lessons for Trump’s impeachment trial.

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Milton on the Ten Commandments

By Robin Bates | Published: October 3, 2020

In Milton’s view of Moses, the law he receives is a temporary measure, ultimately to be superseded by divine grace.

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Enter by the Garden Gate

By Robin Bates | Published: May 2, 2020

“Paradise Lost” and Lewis’s “Magician’s Nephew” pick up on today’s Gospel reading, where Jesus warns against false prophets.

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Homer, Virgil & Dante Visit the Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: April 6, 2020

In my Representative Masterpieces course, I conclude with Dante’s “Inferno,” where we see sinners creating their own hells.

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Sin and Death Enter the World

By Robin Bates | Published: February 29, 2020

I juxtapose the account of the fall, found in Genesis, with Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” regarding the whole as a Lenten reflection.

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Literature’s Unique Spiritual Insights

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2020

An extended reflection upon the relationship between religion and literature.

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With the Second Coming, Peaceful Animals

By Robin Bates | Published: December 7, 2019

Spiritual Sunday Today’s gorgeous Old Testament reading (Isaiah 11:1-10), which captures the spirit of messianic hope, has images that Milton uses in Paradise Lost. While Isaiah is envisioning the coming of the Messiah, however, Milton is looking back to the world before the fall. It can be again in the future asit once was in […]

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Teach Beowulf to Combat Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2019

To teach students how to understand and respond to violence, Beowulf is a go-to work.

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