John Milton, a Puritan?

[Timmay]

I came across a short bio on Christianity Today that said John Milton was a Puritan. Now I know that site is not a bastion of scholarship but are they right? I checked the wiki article about him and it seems some of his theological views may have been suspect. So was he a Puritan, or perhaps influenced by Puritans writing in a Puritan age?


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[NaphtaliPress]

Historians have made it hard to use the word puritan with precision. This seems like a helpful article. http://darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/religion.html
N.B. It is a quaker history site looks like.

 

[arapahoepark]

Historians have made it hard to use the word puritan with precision. This seems like a helpful article. http://darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/religion.html
N.B. It is a quaker history site looks like.

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[KMK]

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[arapahoepark]

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[VictorBravo]

I think you could say Milton was a political puritan. He was anti-prelacy and opposed to restrictions on non-anglican preachers. He was also a republican during the English civil war. He warned against Charles II, so he would be thought to be aligned with Puritans. I also think his political writings presage the spirit of the American Revolution, For what it's worth.

 

[VictorBravo]

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