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New Year, New You?

We all start the New Year with good intentions, fresh resolutions and determination. However the first week in you are hit with the festive flu and the miserable weather leaves you with post Christmas blues. It becomes more and more of a challenge to begin that healthy detox and the downward spiral of comfort eating […]

The Power of Sleep

Sleep, or a lack thereof, undoubtedly defines the structure of our daily lives, with the ability to make or break high powered business deals or simple social interactions.  But a good night’s slumber is not only of paramount importance to our psychological performance, with insufficient repose, it is proven to result in irritability, poor recovery […]

Group spa packages – keep fit on fun weekends with friends

Let’s face it – which would you rather do? Run five kilometres with only the sparrows for company or go cycling with a small group of friends, chatting and laughing or even sharing a good-humoured silence as you zoom along the country lanes? Well, as the human race is essentially gregarious, most of us naturally […]

Benefits of a spa break – healthy eating helps combat flu

It’s that time of year again… So if you like to be well prepared for all contingencies, start stocking up on the tissues, invest in a litre of delicately fragranced decongestant and keep the honey, lemon and whisky on stand-by, ready to whip up a swift, restorative hot toddy when the need arises. Yet surely […]

Twilight spa visits

With the recent release of the film “New Moon”, the latest Twilight saga offering, easy-on-the-eye leading man Robert Pattinson has once again been gracing the front pages of newspapers and magazines around the world. Robert is evidently a young man who takes good care of his physique, so it came as no surprise to learn […]

Let’s raise our mugs to beauty treatments

With the trend for nutri-styled cosmetic products looking set to make a big splash, well-known beverage manufacturers Nescafe have recently developed a new product.  The drink, aimed primarily at women, is a new brand of coffee containing coffee (no surprise there then), skimmed milk and… collagen. For anyone not in the know, collagen is the […]

Weekend breaks in the UK – special gifts for loved ones

There are times when you simply want to spoil the special people in your life with a thoroughly thoughtful and special gift. If this Christmas is one of those times, presents don’t come much more thoughtful than treating a deserving friend or family member to a weekend in the ultimate retreat: a spa. It’s worth […]

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Kelvin Cobaris, a local clergyman, consoles Orlando city commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, an Orlando gay-rights advocate, as they arrive on the scene near where a mass shooting occcured in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016.  (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)  MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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ORLANDO >> A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

Authorities were investigating the attack on the Florida dance hall as an act of terrorism. The gunman’s father recalled that his son recently got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami and said that might be related to the assault.

At least 53 people were hospitalized, most in critical condition, officials said. A surgeon at Orlando Regional Medical Center said the death toll was likely to climb.

“There’s blood everywhere,” Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said.

All of the dead were killed with the assault rifle, according to Rep. Alan Grayson.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene when the gunfire began shortly before the club known as Pulse was to close.

“Some guy walked in and started shooting everybody. He had an automatic rifle, so nobody stood a chance,” said Jackie Smith, who had two friends next to her get shot. “I just tried to get out of there.”

The suspect exchanged gunfire with a police officer working at the club, which had more than 300 people inside. The gunman then went back inside and took hostages, Police Chief John Mina said.

Around 5 a.m., authorities sent in a SWAT team to rescue the hostages.

Authorities were looking into whether the attack was an act of domestic or international terrorism, and if the shooter acted alone, according to Danny Banks, an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

“This is an incident, as I see it, that we certainly classify as domestic terror incident,” Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.

The previous deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. was the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech, where a student killed 32 people before killing himself.

The suspect in the Orlando attack was identified as Omar Mateen of Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Grayson, a Florida Democrat, named the shooter, citing law enforcement officials. A federal law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation confirmed the name. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Mateen’s father, Mir Seddique, told NBC News about his son seeing the men kissing a couple of months ago.

“We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,” Seddique said. “We are in shock like the whole country.”

The law enforcement official said Mateen was known to the FBI before the nightclub attack and had been looked at by agents within the last few years.

The matter for which he came under investigation was “open and closed pretty quickly,” the official said.

When asked if the gunman had a connection to radical Islamic terrorism, Hopper said authorities had “suggestions that individual has leanings towards that.”

Mateen’s father said the attack had nothing to do with religion, he said.

President Barack Obama called the shooting an “act of terror” and an “act of hate” targeting a place of “solidarity and empowerment” for gays and lesbians. He urged Americans to decide whether this is the kind of “country we want to be.”

In addition to the guns, the shooter also had some sort of “suspicious device,” the police chief said.

Authorities said they had secured a van owned by the suspect outside the club. Meanwhile, a SWAT truck and a bomb-disposal unit were on the scene of an address associated with Mateen in a residential neighborhood of Fort Pierce, Florida, about 118 miles southeast of Orlando.

Relatives and friends, many in tears, gathered outside the hospital to learn the fate of loved ones.

Smith did not know the conditions of her wounded friends. She came out of the hospital and burst into tears.

Christine Leinonen drove to Orlando at 4 a.m. after learning of the shooting from a friend of her 32-year-old son, Christopher Leinonen, who was at Pulse and is missing.

She had not heard from her son and feared the worst.

“These are nonsensical killings of our children,” she said, sobbing. “They’re killing our babies!”

She said her son’s friend Brandon Wolf survived by hiding in a bathroom and running out as the bullets flew.

A woman who was outside the club early Sunday was trying to contact her 30-year-old son, Eddie, who texted her when the shooting happened and asked her to call police. He told her he ran into a bathroom with other club patrons to hide. He then texted her: “He’s coming.”

“The next text said: ‘He has us, and he’s in here with us,’” Mina Justice said. “That was the last conversation.”

Pulse posted on its own Facebook page around 2 a.m.: “Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running.” Just before 6 a.m., the club posted an update: “As soon as we have any information, we will update everyone. Please keep everyone in your prayers as we work through this tragic event. Thank you for your thoughts and love.”

A bartender said she initially thought the gunshots were music. But after a second shot, there was a pause, followed by more shots. That’s when Tiffany Johnson realized something was wrong.

Johnson said people dropped to the ground and started running out of the club. She ran to a fast-food restaurant across the street and met one of her customers who let her get in his car. They drove away.

Club-goer Rob Rick said the shooting started just as “everybody was drinking their last sip.”

He estimated more than 100 people were still inside when he heard shots, got on the ground and crawled toward a DJ booth. A bouncer knocked down a partition between the club area and an area where only workers are allowed. People were then able to escape through the back of the club.

Christopher Hansen said he was in the VIP lounge when he heard gunshots. He continued to hear shooting even after he emerged and saw the wounded being tended across the street.

“I was thinking, ‘Are you kidding me?’ So I just dropped down. I just said, ‘Please, please, please, I want to make it out,’” he said. “And when I did, I saw people shot. I saw blood. You hope and pray you don’t get shot.”

The attack follows the fatal shooting late Friday of 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie, a YouTube sensation and former contestant on “The Voice.” She was killed after an Orlando concert by a 27-year-old man who later killed himself.

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Satan is a master theologian. He’s talked to God, interacted with God, believes in God’s existence, and knows more about God’s attributes and abilities than most…and yet Satan doesn’t love God.

Knowledge about God doesn’t equal faith in God.

Just because you have a vast understanding of God, expert knowledge of Biblical Law, intimate comprehension of Biblical History, and an encyclopedic grasp of all scripture still doesn’t mean you love Jesus—Satan certainly didn’t.

Satan isn’t frightening because he’s so evil, but because he’s so similar to us.

We crave power, control, recognition, fame, success, and the authority to judge others—obtaining them via religion, often under the false pretense of holiness.

We attend church, participate in spiritual activities, pretend to love others, and even talk to God, but sometimes we’re just fulfilling our sinful desires—appearing to be very “Christian” in the process.

Meanwhile, we accuse others of being sinners. We condemn our enemies to eternal damnation for not believing the right things, not holding the correct theology, attending the wrong churches, participating in the wrong lifestyles, voting for the wrong politicians, having wrong opinions, and not perfectly complying with our perception of holiness.

Maybe this is why God instructs us not to judge others—because we’re often completely wrong.

Even though Satan looked the part, the fruit of the Spirit were not evident in his life.

We have no idea. Even when we think we do—we don’t.

Our faith isn’t dependent on correct theological beliefs, intellectual knowledge, or even our ability to interact with God—these things are important but utterly useless without a loving relationship with Christ.

If you don’t have all the answers, don’t worry. Ynever will. Christianity isn’t about a quest for answers. Theology is really meant to reveal the Divine truth that God is love, ultimately helping us love God better, and love others as we would love ourselves.

Humility, grace, peace, hope, patience, kindness, and love have everything to do with a desire to passionately follow Christ and emulate His life.

You won’t be perfect. You’ll have your ups and downs and will often fail. But the point is to keep trying to love. Loving God and loving others—this is what Christianity is all about.

Let’s be less like Satan and more like Jesus.

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Plaza America, will welcome Grill Kabob, an Afghan restaurant with other locations in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, soon. A sign announcing the arrival of the chain, which serves made-to-order kabobs and other authentic specialities, was posted in the vacant storefront yesterday.

Grill Kabob will replace Primo Italiano at 11888 Plaza America Drive. The pizza and sub restaurant, which had called the shopping center home since it opened in the 1990s, left in May 2015.

Since then, the location has remained vacant. Staples, which was located in the same shopping center at 11620 Plaza America Drive, also closed on Oct. 7. Total Wine & More, a beer, wine and spirit purveyor, plans to open by the end of the year.

A restaurant representative said it was unclear when Grill Kabob will open. The owner was unavailable for comment. The restaurant launched in 1998 with its first location in the food court at Springfield Mall and has since opened in 14 locations, including stand-alone restaurants.

Mahmoud Mahdjoub, a journalist in Afghanistan, immigrated to the United States, joining his two cousins who fled Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war in 1980. The chain’s website describes Grill Kabob as one of the largest kabob chains in the country.

The restaurant in Reston is just under 4 miles away from another location in Herndon. Other nearby restaurants are located in Dulles Town Center,  Tysons Corner Mall and Manassas Mall. Its menu includes an assortment of kabobs, sandwiches, gyros, salads, falafel platters and more.

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Amazon planning futuristic HQ

Pure play e-tail giant Amazon is hoping to build greenhouse-style futuristic headquarters in the US, and is to submit plans to Seattle city officials regarding the structure, it has been reported.

Unveiling photos and sketches of the plans, the e-tailer hopes to become the latest technology leader after Apple and Google to create a unique working space and has revamped original plans in favour of a more daring structure, according to The Telegraph.

A document from the company seen by the newspaper said initial plans for a six-storey rectilinear build were scrapped in favour of “a series of intersecting spheres with ample space for a wide range of planting material.”

Within the 65,000 sq ft office space, the company aims to leave room across five floors to accommodate mature trees while the exterior will be made up of layers of glass and a metal framework.

Alongside shared spaces such as dining areas and meeting and lounge spaces, Amazon‘s new HQ will also house “botanical zones modeled on montane ecologies found around the globe,” according to the company.

It added: “While the form of the building will be visually reminiscent of a greenhouse or conservatory, plant material will be selected for its ability to co-exist in a microclimate that also suits people.”

Last week, Amazon came under renewed pressure to explain its complex tax practices in the UK and is to be recalled by the Public Account Committee as the Government seeks to ensure that the company is paying all required taxes, though Amazon has said that it operates within the law.


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JAKARTA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's president removed Arcandra Tahar as energy and mining minister after less than a month on the job, the state secretary said on Monday, following reports that he held both Indonesian and U.S. citizenship.

Luhut Pandjaitan will serve as interim energy minister, while also maintaining his current position as coordinating maritime minister.

"To address public questions about the citizenship of Arcandra Tahar..., the president has decided to honorably remove Arcandra Tahar," State Secretary Pratikno told reporters.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, does not recognize dual citizenship for adults.

Tahar, the former executive at Texas-based offshore engineering firm Petroneering, was part of President Joko Widodo's second cabinet reshuffle last month.

His removal after less than three weeks as minister is an embarrassment, analysts said.

"It's an embarrassing failure on the part of the government to conduct even the most basic due diligence," said Keith Loveard, Jakarta-based analyst with Concord Consulting.

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May it be Your will, Lord my God and God of my fathers, to lead my beloved in safety and direct his (her) paths in safety; may You bring him (her) to his (her) destination in life, happiness and peace.

[If traveling by air, add the following.] Fly him (her) in peace and safety to his (her) desired destination. Guard and watch him (her) as he (she) flies the air routes and crosses the seaways and travels the overland passes. Make firm the hands that guide the steering and sustain their spirit, so that they may lead him (her) in peace and safety.)

Protect my beloved from all evil in the world – protect him (her) from bad associates, from bandits, from murderers, from thieves, from all injury, and from wild animals, and most of all, from enemies who speak and think evil about him (her) .

Give my beloved power and strength, grace and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all people. Give him (her) good fortune, blessing, and success, and make all his (her) paths fortunate.

May his (her) going out and his (her) coming in be with peace, that he (she) may merit to return to his (her) house in happiness and good health.

Provide him (her) with a livelihood from Your hand, that he (she) need not rely on any flesh and blood, for such dependency would serve as a barrier, keeping him (her) from serving You fully.

In the merit of Your thirteen attributes of mercy which are written in Your Torah – The Lord, the Lord, merciful, gracious, slow to anger and abundant in kindliness and truth, preserver of kindness for thousands of generations, forgiver of iniquity, transgression and sin, and acquitter – which are never said in vain, I pray: Hear my supplication, for You are God who hears prayer and supplication. Blessed are You, O Lord, who hears prayer.

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Ojai, CA Part 2 of my Personal Retreat

I arrived in Ojai on Tuesday and check into the Ojai Retreat Bed and Breakfast. After driving up a long road to the top of a hill I found the office, got my key and drove round to the “Oak Room” which is where I stayed.  My room had a bed, a little table and chairs, refrigerator and private bath and a bay window that looked out onto the mountains.  Outside my room was my own private patio with a table and 4 chairs.  That afternoon I met with a yoga instructor, Mihaela, who came to my room to do yoga with me.  And there on my patio, I spent two and a half hours learning yoga from this amazing and inspirational woman. I had only done yoga a few times before and had not been able to do any kind of stretching until now, since my back surgery in October.  I learned about Yuan Miao and bought the book “Dancing of Rooftops with Dragons, The Yoga of Joy,” which I started reading right away.  I loved it and it was just what I needed to learn about. On Wednesday morning when I opened the door, I saw a tree, surrounded by the morning mist, mountains in the background and flowers that were pink and purple in the bushes all around my patio.  The birds were singing and the air was crisp and fresh.  I had slept straight through the night again and felt rested and peaceful when I woke up.  I went for a walk down the nature path and onto a meadow and followed the trail around the property… I saw many baby quail and their parents scurrying along the path, chirping and hiding.  It was a long walk and it felt good to be by myself in nature, noticing the tiniest little flowers that grow out of the brown dirt, yellow and purple and sometimes red.  I heard noises of animals in the brush as they heard me getting close to where they were.  Being a former city girl, I became aware of the sounds and cautious as if someone or something might jump out of the bushes and attack me.  And when that moment passed, I was back in my country girl skin enjoying the smells of sage and hot pine needles all around me.


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Peggy, beautiful and wise then, beautiful and wise now.

One of the things I love about my work is that it connects me with other people and their stories and memories of their grandmothers, mothers, friends, aunts and whoever has touched their lives. I had the pleasure of meeting Peter through one of the recently published articles about Beauty and Wisdom and offered to share his mom with the viewers and readers of the Beauty and Wisdom blog.

This is Peggy from her wedding day in 1957.

She never had any wedding photos until her son Peter, found a box of slides in the basement that she had never seen. They were too poor to afford a photographer, but someone had taken photos and they were forgotten. Peter’s father passed before ever seeing these.

This is Peggy now in a photo taken at Peter’s wedding in May.

Peter pointed out that his mom was the one smiling…but it was obvious that this was the same woman from the earlier picture, with the same spirit, same smile…beautiful…and wise.

Thank you Peter for sharing your mum with us!!


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Mind If I Come In: Dreamkiller

Seems very familiar.

Yesterday saw the rather subdued announcement of a new game from Painkiller: Overdose developers Mindware Studios, a “mega-bloodbath” called Dreamkiller. Subdued since the game tantalisingly teased as a cross between the brainless shooty nonsense of Painkiller and cerebral entertainment of Psychonauts is mentioned on neither the developer nor the publisher‘s websites. Which seems an odd tactic. Anyway, more details below.

The Psychonauts comparisons seem to be entirely born of other sites getting excited by the game’s premise. You play as Alice Drake, a psychologist who can mysteriously enter the brains of her patients. And that would appear to be as much as it has to do with Schafer’s gorgeous platforming wonder. (Looking at the screenshots, we’d suggest Zeno Clash has been a more direct inspiration.) Once you’re in the minds of your subjects, you then let loose with your collection of weaponry and magic powers to fight the nightmares within.

Zeno Clash meets Doom 3?

I’m not sure I could hope to match the press release’s purple prose explaining this, so I’ll bow out and hand over:

“Alice confronts our common demons only to discover an even deeper menace reigns within. The ultimate showdown becomes inevitable between that which would torment and she who will protect, and only one force will prevail amidst a variety of dreamscapes as varied and bizarre as the human mind itself. Dreamkiller features 12 rich levels of single-player gameplay each laced with swarms of hideous and disturbing enemies reflecting the mind’s infinite palette of fear. The onslaught continues with numerous multiplayer modes and a host of over-the-top weapons and supernatural abilities. Stay awake, Dreamkiller will be available this fall.”

Presumably there will be a website for it soon (or at least one that’s linked to by either publisher or developer), and hopefully some more details. Painkiller may not win any prizes for intelligent gaming, but it was a dumb way to have fun for short bursts. (Mindware only developed the sequel, of course.) With a premise this daft, Dreamkiller might end up improving in that same niche.

  1. Dominic White says:

    While the original Painkiller was fun (although it never grabbed me the same way the sillier Serious Sam did), Overdose was pretty terrible. It was, effectively, poor Painkiller fan-fiction. Originally meant to be a mod, the publisher signed it to become a full product.

    Maybe these guys have gotten better. Maybe. I’m doubtful though.

  2. Saul says:

    I’m sure my mental health would improve dramatically if someone could enter it and blow things up with “over the top wepons”.

  3. Dominic White says:

    Oh, for anyone who wants to enjoy the unintentional comedy that is Painkiller: Overdose, but wants to be able to skip the boring/painful parts, there’s a very good Let’s Play archived on the.. err.. internet archives.

    link to archive.org

    Streaming and/or downloadable to boot.

  4. Gnarl says:

    Alice Drake sounds a tad Ashes to Ashes. It also sounds quite interesting.

  5. radomaj says:

    Kotaku has a leetle bit more info on Dreamkiller:
    link to kotaku.com

    Not to plug them or anything, they just have more info and I didn’t want to copy the whole post as a comment.

  6. megaman says:

    While Painkiller definitely wasn’t a smart game, or introduced anything new, it was well done and offered tons of fun for me. It was just the right mixture of fear & fun, so I’ll hope for the best with Dreamkiller.

  7. Howard says:

    Yeah, Painkiller itself was a blast (loved the starter blade weapon) but Overdose was just very poor indeed. I cannot imagine that this team will have made a particular leap forward with the quality of their work nor that the Painkiller engine has aged particularly well…

  8. Xercies says:

    Please bring back these kind of games…I’m getting sick of the serious FPS around…

  9. Alex says:

    I wish I could have played Painkiller. I picked it up for $5 but the thing refused to run at resolutions higher than 512×384. The last time I had to do that was playing TFC when my graphics card was still a Matrox Millenium.

  10. Howard says:

    That’s odd; it runs fine for me on Vista 64. Did you patch it? Also try and get the expansion. It ups the power of the engine quite a bit.

  11. Pavel says:

    Mindware also did Cold War – very good stealth action game.They are pretty talented, but if you knew what they had to go through when making Overdose (and all their other games, like sadly canceled Voodoo Nights), you would probably give them some slack.

  12. Monchberter says:

    Woo, i think we’ve all stopped mourning Duke Nukem and now we’re starting to miss him. Boneheadedly smart FPS experiences here we come!

    On a similar note, did anyone play Demented early FPS Rise of the Triad? Now that was pure silly.

  13. Stense says:

    I loved Rise of the Triad, it was silly over the top fun. You can turn into a dog and use your bark to make people explode, what more do you need?

    Wasn’t too fond of Painkiller though. I never was able to put my finger on why, but it just didn’t gel with me.

  14. Markoff Chaney says:

    RotT was quite enjoyable and, for its day, something quite innovative. I also really enjoyed the first 2 Painkillers (that comprise Black). Overdose is a little sluggish, but the first two always ran like a dream for me.

    This totally looks more like Zeno Clash than Psychonauts.

  15. Diogo Ribeiro says:

    “Stay awake, Dreamkiller will be available”

    Oh man, I totally love this play on words! See, I have to keep awake otherwise THE DREAMKILLER COMES!!

    “…..” /jrpg

  16. Asz says:

    The original Painkiller and expansion were amazingly atmospheric games. Not bright, not extremely innovative, but very fun and very cool. I’d love it if everyone could strike Dreamkiller from their heads and show some interest for whatever the hell People Can Fly (the original PK developers) are doing: link to epicgames.com

    Who knows when we’ll hear substantial news on that though.

  17. SirKicksalot says:

    I’d rather play another Necrovision. Without the crappy first third, of course.

  18. Carra says:

    I actually restarted Painkiller last week, bought it from gog.com when it was on promo a few weeks ago. And it’s a lot of mindless fun. There’s something about impaling people with huge, wooden stakes. And the levels just look gorgeous. Huge cathedrals, medieval villages, snowy bridges, opera houses,…

    Seeing how this game isn’t made by the original developers I’m not gonna get my hopes up.

  19. tycho says:

    @ Gnarl

    That’s the first thing I thought also – maybe they will release the game under the title “Bashes to Bashes”, starring Alice Drake and Sean Punt…

  20. Senethro says:

    Not made by People Can Fly, don’t care about it.

    What happened to PCF? :<

  21. Adventurous Putty says:

    I hope the Hivemind isn’t naive enough to think that these people are in the slightest capable of depth. They make great brainless shooters, as Yahtzee and my own experience can testify, but considering that what we have are a tiny sampling of unnecessary purple prose and some screenshots aping Zeno Clash, I think the intent here (CASH-IN!) is obvious.

  22. ForTheLulz says:

    “While Painkiller definitely wasn’t a smart game, or introduced anything new, it was well done and offered tons of fun for me.”

    Didn’t introduce anything new? It’s one of the first games released to feature full ragdoll deaths and a physics enabled world for awesome explosions. The stake gun that pins people to walls was also pretty new. And they had humongous bosses… bigger than anything I’d ever seen before in a 3D game… probably only topped by Shadow of Colossus!

  23. Acosta says:

    Yes please, more fantasy FPS games with over the top weapons is good news to me.

  24. Dave says:

    So let me get this straight… you have to enter the Mind of Techsmith 314 and battle his squishy, electricity-spewing inner demons?

  25. suibhne says:

    Maybe it’ll be a romp a la Painkiller, but sheesh, the overall concept is as hackneyed as they come.

  26. Jerry Mander says:

    But will Yahtzee like it?

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    John Walker says:

    Adventurous Putty – I’m not quite sure how I could have been more clear about my belief this would be brainless!

    “Cash-in” doesn’t really make any sense. Cashing in on what? That lucrative looking-a-bit-like-Zeno-Clash market everyone’s trying to get a piece of? : )

  28. Adventurous Putty says:

    I was thinking more the lucrative “Ooo if we decide to stick a bunch of weird-looking models and environments in a game for no purpose but our own whimsy we can look all indie and avante-garde and everyone will love our game!”

    hm, yeah, upon further consideration that ISN’T a very smart way of making money. My brain wasn’t working when I thought that out, evidently. Carry on.


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Maple Jeans Turns To Kickstarter To Create UK Jobs

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Cheer on the lads in the Checkatrade Trophy

6 November 2016

Rovers' development squad are back in action at Ewood this Tuesday evening when they take on Oldham Athletic in their final group match of the Checkatrade Trophy.

Damien Johnson's side know they need to win, and win well, after two losses in the competition to date to have any chance of progressing through to the knockout stages.

The Rovers youngsters impressed but were ultimately unsuccessful as they went down 1-0 to Fleetwood Town at the Highbury Stadium in their opening group match.

Then at Brunton Park they put in another encouraging display, but again without reward, as they lost 2-0 to high-flying Carlisle United.

Tuesday's opponents at Ewood Park began their Checkatrade Trophy campaign with a dramatic 5-4 home defeat at the hands of Carlisle, but claimed their first points of the competition with a 2-0 win at Fleetwood.

In order to reach the knockout stages Rovers must win by three clear goals and hope that Carlisle make it three wins from three.

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Russian peacekeepers to patrol security zones in Ossetia

Russian peacekeepers to patrol security zones in Ossetia
The withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia has been completed in line with the plan aimed at settling the conflict in South Ossetia, according to military officials. The pact, worked out by the Russian and French pres

Reports are coming through of a series of strong blasts in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali, near the camp of the Emergencies Ministry. According to preliminary reports, the blasts occurred at an ammunition dump where military equipment confiscated from Georgians during the conflict was being kept.

The blasts lasted for a little over five minutes, then continued after after a break. Black dense smoke is reported to have enveloped the camp.

Earlier, questioned about the legality of Russia's peacekeeping presence in the buffer areas at a news conference on Saturday, Russia's Deputy Chief of General Staff Anatoly Nogovitsyn quoted a statement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

“These additional measures to provide security would mean patrols by Russian peacekeeping forces in the areas specified by the existing agreements along with the withdrawal of the Russian forces to their positions as they were on August 7, before the start of the war,” he quoted Sarkozy as saying.

Nogovitsyn said this confirms the legitimacy of Russia's patrols of the buffer areas.

According to the Deputy Chief of General Staff, Russia has set up 18 peacekeeping posts in security zones in South Ossetia and would build as many in Abkhazia “in order to deter looters and the transportation of arms and ammunition.”

Russian troops to patrol Georgian port

A Russian peacekeeping contingent will control the Georgian port of Poti in line with the six-principle agreement, said Nogovitsyn.

“These patrols were envisaged in the international agreement,” he said. “Poti is outside the security zone, but that does not mean we will sit behind a fence watching them riding around in Hummers,” he added.

Renewed conflict fears

Georgia is intent on achieving territorial integrity at any cost, and may be planning another attack on one of its two breakaway republics, said Nogovitsyn.

“The potential of the Georgian armed forces is being restored only for a new aggression. In its desire to resolve the territorial problem at any cost, it has in fact declared preparations for the third conflict, as they [the Georgian leadership] apparently find the previous two not enough,” he added.

The local population say they fear that Georgia might repeat its aggression in the region. They also say they hope Russian troops will stay in the area to shield them from any possible attacks.


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As secretary of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History it is a pleasure to announce that the society has entered (barely) the age of web-commerce.  By following the link below you can join S-USIH through a PayPal portal.

The link will take you to the new and developing S-USIH website. In order to use the site’s PayPal link you will need to create a WordPress account (if you do not already have one). The point of this is to allow the society to create a list of its members on its website in order to communicate with members and to provide access to members only content.
The fee for joining online is $42 ($40 for the membership + $2 for PayPal’s processing fees).  If you do not wish to join on-line you can still send a check directly to the society itself–the annual membership if paid by mail is $40.
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American Milton?

“By gradual steps (which have not yet been traced),” wrote Perry Miller in 1956, “Paradise Lost became, around the middle of the eighteenth century, not so much a secondary Book of Genesis as a substitute for the original.”1 This bold claim from Errand into the Wilderness has always intrigued me. It contains implications for reception history, history of the book, American intellectual history, and above all, Puritan theology, if devotees of the principle sola scriptura, by the eighteenth century, practiced sola scriptura… and Milton! Here is my preliminary attempt to uncover and examine a little of this chapter in American intellectual history.

The first copy of Paradise Lost, published in London in 1667, arrived in the new world in 1698, after New York City ordered a copy for its library. Yale listed Paradise Lost as part of its collection in 1714, two years before a young Jonathan Edwards arrived in New Haven to study theology. In 1715, Harvard College boasted that their collection included Paradise Lost as well as all of Milton’s other works. Historian and Milton scholar George Sensabaugh writes that early in eighteenth-century New England Puritan diaries began to abound with references to Milton. “Such testimony,” Sensabaugh argues, “along with notices in newspapers and magazines and almanacs, suggests that Milton was read and appreciated from Massachusetts to the Carolinas, that his phenomenal fame, though partially imported from England, was largely an indigenous growth.”2

This indigenous growth was nurtured in a Puritan environment by Puritan habits of reading. Puritans did not read as if words were dead. Believing that all true human perceptions of beauty or truth were the experience of God’s grace, they maintained that a profound or excellent text must come from the Holy Spirit, and that it must be alive and capable of “speech” to impress its truth upon the reader.3 Puritans thus believed that the true author of Paradise Lost was the Holy Spirit, speaking through John Milton—an idea with radical implications. For with this theology, Puritans elevated any great text to the level of the scripture, replacing sola scriptura with sola fide, and declaring any word written through faith sacrosanct. The alternative would be to claim that men, through no divine aid but only the work of their excellent minds, were capable of perceiving great truths. Another option would be to protect biblical authority by declaring it dead, not alive and available to be experienced through God’s grace. While Arminians and Unitarians chose the later alternatives, rather than make every inspired poet divine, Puritans in the early eighteenth century could not deny the supreme power of the Holy Spirit or the total depravity of man, and their reading of Paradise Lost as a divinely-inspired, living text radically altered their reading of the Bible.

Charles Chauncy, appointed president of Harvard College in 1654, was a simple man. The most passionate theological debate he engaged in involved whether baptism required full submersion in water or a mere sprinkling on the head. He lacked rhetorical skill and had so little poetic inclination that he “wished that someone one would translate Paradise Lost into prose, that he might understand it.”4 Had Chauncy lived to see the eighteenth century, he would have gotten his wish. By the time his great-grandson of the same name was preaching in the 1740s, the leading ministers in New England gave sermons that read like prose versions of Milton’s poem, borrowing his narrative, his imagery, and his characters, even when they contradicted the biblical story.

Beginning in the early eighteenth century, New England preachers began to incorporate Paradise Lost into their sermons. At first, they acknowledged Milton as the source, augmenting the scripture with the poem, but not yet confusing the two. As far as I can tell from sermons available to public access, the first minister to preach Milton regularly was Benjamin Coleman of Boston. In 1714, he gave a series of sermons using the metaphor of light to explain how God reveals truth to the elect. Coleman drew upon Milton for this metaphor, quoting from Paradise Lost to his congregation, and proclaiming “God is light. So He represents Himself unto us . . . the angels sing Hail, Holy Light! . . . our Milton learn’d it of them . . . our late angel of a man.”5 Coleman quotes Milton in five sermons delivered from 1714 to 1716. Later, his sermons relied heavily on Paradise Lost but led the reader unacquainted with Milton to believe his only source was the Bible. In a sermon delivered in 1735 entitled A Brief Dissertation on the Three First Chapters of Genesis, Coleman painted a pastoral picture of Eden found nowhere in the Bible, but revealed in Book IV of Paradise Lost. “The plants were covered with the sweetest Odour, and streams of pure water ran by the green shady walks,” Coleman preached, adding that “the trees were laden with painted fruit,” and that Adam and Eve “walked together, contemplated and discoursed” in this idyllic setting. In Book IV, Milton similarly describes Eden’s “odorous balme,” “murmuring waters,” trees bearing “fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde,” and the strolls Adam and Eve would take together in lofty conversation.6

Jonathan Edwards, probably one of the most careful writers when composing his sermons, once used Milton as a lens through which to interpret the Bible. In defending a Calvinist interpretation of John 17:12, Edwards employed two familiar tactics. First, he interpreted the passage in light of other biblical passages. Second, he looked at the original Greek text and insisted on a particular translation with a meaning that supported his interpretation. But Edwards then quoted Book II of Paradise Lost: “God and his Son except/ created things naught valued he nor shunned.” That Edwards, a strict disciple of orthodox Calvinism, which proclaimed sola scriptura and eschewed all authority other than the Bible would turn to Milton to defend his interpretation of a passage from John is remarkable, and suggests that the principle of sola fide produced a radical way of reading texts that ultimately challenged the authority of the scripture.

Edwards lists Paradise Lost twice in his meticulously kept log of all books and essays he read. His high praise and enthusiasm for Milton and his theology of grace suggests that he could have believed Milton to be divinely possessed when he wrote Paradise Lost and thus a valid authority for interpreting scripture.7 But perhaps even more remarkable is Edwards’ unacknowledged use of Paradise Lost in a sermon on recognizing true grace delivered in 1743. “The devil has . . . a great knowledge of heaven,” Edwards explained in this sermon. “For he has been an inhabitant of that world of glory: and he has a great knowledge of hell, and the nature of its misery; for he is the first inhabitant of hell; and above all the other inhabitants, has experience of its torment, and has felt them constantly, for more than fifty-seven hundred years,” he declared.8 These facts about Satan, particularly the date “fifty-seven hundred years,” come from not from the Bible, but Paradise Lost, which Edwards’ journal shows he read just three weeks before delivering the sermon.9 Edwards’ use of Paradise Lost and his dating of the time Satan spent in heaven are particularly interesting considering Edwards’ reluctance to use new science such as Newtonian physics, which he also read with enthusiasm, to add to the Bible in the form of speculation about the age of the earth or the date and manner in which the world would end, something many of his contemporaries engaged in.10 Edwards’ willingness to entertain thoughts about the years Satan spent in heaven based on Paradise Lost suggests that he considered the poem on the level of scripture.

After 1740, quotations from Paradise Lost abound in at least two sermons of every major New England minister. Jonathan Mayhew, a bitter opponent of Edwards, quotes Milton in over two dozen sermons. Charles Chauncy, whose great-grandfather had longed for a prose version of Paradise Lost, allowed Milton’s description of Eden and the motives and personalities he assigned to Adam, Eve, and Satan to creep into his sermons, although his direct quotations remain from scripture alone.11 As Perry Miller suggested, Paradise Lost nearly replaced Genesis in the Puritan imagination.

Another demonstration of Milton in the popular imagination comes from the New England Primer, the children’s book designed to teach religion and reading. Children learned the alphabet from this book by associating pictures and a rhyme with each letter. “In Adam’s fall, we sinned all,” sang the rhyme for the letter A. The simple illustration that accompanied this rhyme began as a picture of Adam and Eve next to the tree of knowledge in the first edition. In the second edition, Adam and Eve are depicted next to a snake-devil. John Milton made the snake that encouraged the transgression Satan in disguise; the Bible does not say that the serpent is the devil. The drawing of the fall in the second edition of the New England Primer thus depicts a scene from Paradise Lost, not Genesis. Finally, a later edition of the primer shows only Eve with a fruit in her hand. The choice to depict only Eve is curious, since the rhyme remained “In Adam’s fall, we sinned all.” In Paradise Lost, Eve is tempted by the serpent alone; she takes the fruit alone, and only later does she encourage Adam to join her in sin. In the Bible, however, Adam and Eve are together when the serpent approaches them and together when they eat the fruit. It is only after God discovers their sin that Adam claims Eve was primarily responsible. Again, the primer’s drawing of the fall is therefore a better illustration of Milton’s version than of the biblical version.12NEP1

While the Puritans appreciated Milton because they could take his poetic fiction for another version of biblical truth, Unitarians appreciated Milton because they believed his poetry could not be misunderstood for fact. New England Unitarians embodied what Henry May has called the Didactic Enlightenment, built on Scottish common-sense philosophy.13 This Enlightenment strain reacted against the subjectivism and skepticism of George Berkeley and David Hume; followers of the Scottish common-sense movement therefore tried to establish the faith in objective reality that Berkeley and Hume had shaken. In the tradition of this ideology, Unitarian poet William Cullen Bryant praised Paradise Lost for showing a controlled use of the imagination, grounding the fantasy of his mind on the objective fact of the Bible.14

Milton’s imagination is only controlled, however, when the Bible is guarded as a dead text and conversion is simply a matter of accepting it as truth, not a private experience of grace and regeneration. In 1834, A. H. Everett explained why Milton was safer than Shakespeare. “In Milton’s creation, we feel the hands of a master;– in those of Shakespeare, we forget it” he cautioned.15 According to Everett, both Milton and Shakespeare were geniuses, but Shakespeare’s fiction could dangerously melt into fact; Milton clearly remained the effort of a creative mind. Yet the experience of earlier New Englanders with Milton demonstrates that there is nothing inherent in his writing that makes it easy to discriminate from fact, but rather a different way of reading and a different understanding of the role of the poet that changed Milton from an “angel,” as Benjamin Coleman had preached, to simply a talented writer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson attacked this Unitarian way of reading, complaining in 1838 before the Harvard Divinity School that “men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead.”16 For Emerson’s New England ancestors, God and scripture were alive and in danger of becoming perverted by the interpretation of a poet; for Emerson and his fellow Transcendentalists, God and the Bible were secure, frozen, and dead. “I would have my pen so guided as was Milton’s when a deep and enthusiastic love of goodness and of God dictated . . . to the bard,” a young Emerson wrote, reflecting a Puritan view of the source of Milton’s genius.17

In his essay, Intellect, Emerson writes: “To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is revelation,” he continues, “always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.” “But to make it available,” Emerson says of the subjective experience of great truth, “it needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.” To be communicable, he concludes, experience must become objective. “We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses,” Emerson declares.18

Should historians write like Emerson’s Unitarians, as if the past were dead? Can we make the past an expression of our thought? Writing about the way figures in the past have read and used literature, aside from offering unique insight into their mental and cultural worlds, can provide a starting point for the historian to experiment with writing about the past the way Puritans used Paradise Lost— as an objective reflection of subjective perception.

1 Miller, Errand in the Wilderness (New York, 1956), 220.

2 George F. Sensabaugh, Milton in Early America (Princeton: 1964), 37.

3See, Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things (Cambridge and London: 2002).

4 Quoted in Miller, Jonathan Edwards, 27.

5 Benjamin Coleman, A Discourse on the Incomprehensibleness of God, Boston, 1714.

6 Coleman, A Brief Dissertation on the Three First Chapters of Genesis, Boston, 1735.

7 The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University < http://edwards.yale.edu/>.

8 Jonathan Edwards, True Grace, Distinguished From The Experience Of Devils, Northampton, 1743.

9 The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University < http://edwards.yale.edu/>.

10 See Miller, Jonathan Edwards.

11 “Eighteenth Century Collections Online” is an excellent resource for searching within published sermons.

12 New England Primer, < http://www.sacred-texts.com.>

13 Henry May, The Enlightenment in America (Oxford: 1976).

14 K. P. Van Anglen, The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic (University Park: 1993), 62-63.

15Anglen, 65.

16 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Divinity School Address” in Robert D. Richardson Jr., ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems (New York: 2007), 116.

17 Quoted in Anglen, 115.

18 Emerson, “Intellect.”

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  1. Interesting post, Rivka.

    I have been thinking about the notion of the sacrality of all “true” texts lately in connection with the idea of “canon,” somewhat along the lines laid out by John Guillory, who rightly points out that the whole notion of canonicity is borrowed from ecclesial history. Of course, the Puritans and Milton precede notions of a literary canon by a few hundred years, but this post very helpfully marks out one path to the secularization of the idea of canonicity.

    I’d be interested to know if the Puritans found themselves needing to “make a case” for the esteem given to Milton, or do any apologetic spadework. If so, I think every modern-day Fundamentalist’s favorite proof-text for claiming divine inspiration of scripture (2 Tim 3:16) would certainly have been of use to them. The Greek deploys no special noun for “scripture” in the verse. While the noun used there — graphei — is the same one used in the Septuagint for “scripture” — it is just a humdrum Greek word that means “writings,” and the specialized use of it to refer to the writings that the faith-community would care about must be understood from context. So I’d like to know about the “catholicity” (or lack thereof) with which Puritans understood this term.

    On the influence / ubiquity of Milton, I’m convinced. On the notion that the changing illustrations in the primer were influenced primarily by Milton, I’m not so sure. I think you have to do more spadework in terms of looking at various woodcuts / iconographic representations of the Fall that would have been current in other books / pamphlets, illustrated Bibles, etc. Cranach’s woodcuts for Luther’s Bible included Adam and Eve and a serpent in the tree — the serpent is not Milton’s innovations, and it isn’t Cranach’s either. So I think you’d need to look at how Bibles were illustrated and see how that does / doesn’t track with changes in the primer’s illustrations.

    The iconography of Eve by herself does represent a different interpretive emphasis, but the notion of Eve being alone with the serpent is not original with Milton either (nor is the iconography). Here is a link to a 15th century woodcut featuring the serpent tempting Eve alone:

    15th century woodcut

    As to Milton depicting “the objective fact of the Bible,” this story is one of those (many) places where the text gives like an accordion to accommodate various interpretive emphases (in some places it gives more than others).

    The text of Genesis 3 begins with a colloquy between the serpent and Eve. The first five verses are a dialogue between the two, and Adam is not mentioned. Verse 6b notes that Adam was “with her,” but it is not clear from the text itself when that “withness” began in the narrative — are we to understand that Adam was a silent witness to Eve’s conversation with the serpent, or are we to understand that Adam came shambling up after the fruit was already picked?

    The bare text by itself can be read either way, and has been read either way. But even for the sola scriptura crowd, the text has never been “by itself,” whether illustrated or not. There is a long exegetical tradition surrounding Genesis 3, a tradition from which Milton may be drawing upon one strand and the Puritans on the same strand or a different one. But I think that you’d need to scrutinize that tradition more closely to make the case that it is chiefly to Milton that we owe an emphasis on the “solitude” of Eve.

    Indeed, in his commentary on Genesis, Calvin argues quite vociferously that while some suggest Adam must have been with Eve all along, this is clearly not the case. Calvin and the Puritan divines all read the Fathers, so I would go Patristic on this one in order to sort out the genesis (!) of the various main “plot lines” of Genesis 3. And going Patristic probably also means going rabbinic, since rabbinic interpretations of the Torah were known to and discussed by various Fathers.

    I do think that the larger question you are getting at quite ably in this post is crucially important — in the long historic process of “desacralization,” what happens to the relationship between texts (or Texts) and truth (or Truth)? This has a great deal to do with debates over the canon.

  2. I like this Rivka’s stuff. And props to LDB for some nice biblical background, esp the Calvin.

    BTW, the battle of St. Michael vs. Satan part is from Revelation 12, the last book of the Christian Bible.

    7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

    8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

    9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

    And going Patristic probably also means going rabbinic, since rabbinic interpretations of the Torah were known to and discussed by various Fathers.

    Interesting lead, LDB. Thanks in advance for anything further on these lines. There are evangels who have simply preempted the chase and declared the KJV as divinely authoritative and inerrant, hence no need for learning all that boring Greek and Hebrew and stuff.

    Theology can be really sweet sometimes.

  3. Loved this paraphrasing of Miller on Puritans’ reading habits: “Puritans did not read as if words were dead. Believing that all true human perceptions of beauty or truth were the experience of God’s grace, they maintained that a profound or excellent text must come from the Holy Spirit, and that it must be alive and capable of “speech” to impress its truth upon the reader.”

    Ditto Lora on canonicity and its relationship to ecclesial history via Guillory (who gets it from Rudolph Pfeiffer, *History of Classical Scholarship…* (1968), who had in turn noted that the association first appeared in 1768 in the work of David Ruhnken), [Guillory, p. 344n9]. The classics-canon relationship dates, in fact, from roughly Edwards period.

    Rivka: Please help me with the following question—Did the Unitarians seek, then, to reform or discipline Edwards-ian Puritanism via reading habits—by refocusing readers on the principle of sola scriptura? I got lost in the Cullen-to-Everett-to-Emerson portion of the essay. Was Everett also a Unitarian? And Emerson was born into a Unitarian family, but was not Unitarian, correct? Help me out. – TL

    • My view is that Unitarians– and this was also Emerson’s critique of the Unitarians who taught him– disciplined Puritan reading habits by insisting that words, even the divinely-inspired words in the Bible, are dead (Lee Eric Schmidt’s Hearing Things contains some fascinating analysis of this kind of shift in reading habits). The distinction between “sola fide” and “sola scriptura” was just my way of suggesting that the Puritans’ view of grace might interfere with their principle of scripture alone, if a Milton, filled with the Holy Spirit, could become elevated to the level of scripture.

  4. Rivka, this is fascinating stuff.

    I had a question about this section of your post: “they maintained that a profound or excellent text must come from the Holy Spirit, and that it must be alive and capable of “speech” to impress its truth upon the reader (3). Puritans thus believed that the true author of Paradise Lost was the Holy Spirit, speaking through John Milton—an idea with radical implications. For with this theology, Puritans elevated any great text to the level of the scripture, replacing sola scriptura with sola fide, and declaring any word written through faith sacrosanct. The alternative would be to claim that men, through no divine aid but only the work of their excellent minds, were capable of perceiving great truths.”

    I just want to hop onto Lora’s question about whether Puritans needed to vouch for Milton’s inspiration by citing a passage from Miller’s earlier The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, where he relates how, despite Puritan notions of depravity, there was still some wiggle room in their worldview for making distinctions between good works caused by “divine grace” and “natural causes.” The relevant passage reads: “Regeneration must be done ‘by an irresistible power’ or else it will never succeed in overturning the dominion of sin. Consequently, the initial requirement for a description of regeneration is a rigorous distinction between the effects of divine grace and all behavior elicited by natural causes. This distinction was not always an easy one for the Puritan to establish, because in fallen men there are faculties which can sometimes produce actions remarkably similar to those that result from faith, even at times seeming to excel them. The presence of these faculties argues no saving worth in man, it only proves the fiendish subtlety of his corruption. Sin does not always manifest itself as violence and rapine, but masquerades as virtue itself. . . .”*

    I was referring to your comment above that Puritans “maintained that a profound or excellent text must come from the Holy Spirit. . . . Puritans thus believed that the true author of Paradise Lost was the Holy Spirit. . . . For with this theology, Puritans elevated any great text to the level of scripture. . . .” Maybe Miller would not view writing a text (such as Paradise Lost) as constituting a “good work,” in contrast to doing an ostensibly “moral” act (such as giving aid to someone). I was just wondering if your argument is that Puritans necessarily had to view these inspirational literary compositions as divine (because, they contain “profound” and “excellent” insights)? Am I reading your post right? It’s very intriguing to me.

    *Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982; 1939), 28.

    • Thank you, Mark! This is an interesting problem and an excellent question. I would not, especially after the section of NEM you quoted, want to argue that Puritans necessarily believed every profound thought or successful/right act to be divinely inspired. After all, even after experiencing grace, good Puritans were supposed to question whether what they experienced was indeed the Holy Spirit or just a nice New England autumn day affecting their mood! However, the language that Puritan ministers used when talking about Milton (calling him an “angle,” for example), and the fact that they seemed to believe Paradise Lost was as authoritative as the Bible (using it to explain some Biblical passages, or to substitute it for others) suggests that many New England Puritans were happy to believe Milton divinely inspired. The language Edwards and other uses in their private writings to talk about Milton’s effect on them mirrors the way they talk about experiencing grace (saying that the work provoked tears, etc.)!

  5. L.D. and Tim:

    Thanks for your comments! I had not thought about this issue as related to cannon-formation, but of course it is! In my brief study of Puritan sermons mentioning Milton, as well as looking at the libraries in New England that purchased copies of Paradise Lost, I never found any sense of a need to justify the Milton-mania, but that would be very interesting, especially given fierce debates over literary cannons in later centuries (including our own)! I would look to (old) England for a debate over the use of Milton, and/or to the Unitarians. It seems that by the early 19th century, they may have had to may a case for Milton, though by then he had also already been canonized…

    Thanks, also, L.D., for deepening and clarifying some of the issues I touched on, and for the awesome use of Biblical Greek! I thought of the woodcuts mainly because Miller also mentions that one might see this transformation of Milton/the Biblical story in art/painting, and that was the closest thing I could find… Again, this was a quick study. I would love to see, do, and participate in much more!

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