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The Puritan poet John Milton is most well-known for his significant theological epic Heaven Lost. He was also known as perhaps the best genius of the British Renaissance possibly the best-educated man of his day and also a major theorist of classical learning for Christians. The person who published the seminal words 'The end then of Learning is to correct the ruines of the first Parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of this knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him....' (Of Education, 1644) argues across all his voluminous writings that the purpose of education is soul benefit virtue instead of information gathering for revenue. In this booklet, Milton scholar Teacher Grant Horner in the Master's School examines the poet's powerful eyesight of a Religious and classical education. Trained at Duke University by Stanley Fish, the world's most influential Miltonist, Horner approaches the written text as a Religious educator himself, having the complicated seventeenth-century texts into modern light for request. Handling questions such as how to handle pagan texts, how to build up a theology of appearance, and why we should grapple with the partnership between pagan knowledge and scripture, this booklet will serve as an intensive and readable benefits to the complicated thought of one of the Puritan intellectual giants.
