Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / William P. Shaw
  • Revolution, restoration, and literature / Christopher Hill
  • "Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?" : the role of Jehu (2 Kings 9-10) in seventeenth-century religious and political literature / Laura Ballard Kennelly
  • The house of love : rhetoric and salvation in the seventeenth century / Jean Dietz Moss
  • Mothers in Israel : the Puritan rhetoric of childbearing / Margaret Olofson Thickstun
  • Secular fall and redemption in Hobbes's Leviathan / Leo Rauch
  • Macbeth and The tempest : the dark side of Prospero's magic / Richard S. Ide
  • Ben Jonson's libertine Catholicism / T. Wilson Hayes
  • John Donne and salvation through grace / George Klawitter
  • Interpretive authority in Donne's Biathanatos / Meg Lota Brown
  • Salvation and damnation in Divine meditations of John Donne / Barry Spurr
  • "Impute this idle talke" : the l̀eaven' body of Donne's "Holy sonnet III" / M. Thomas Hester
  • God's ape and Christ the all-heal : salvation and damnation in the vegetable world / Charlotte F. Otten
  • Salvation under covenant : Herbert's poetry and Puritan sermons / Jeanne Clayton Hunter
  • "Artillerie" : Herbert's strange warfare / Robert Thomas Fallon
  • Semiotics of the sacrament in Edward Taylor's Preparatory meditations / Ivy Schweitzer
  • Human and divine reconciliation in Paradise lost, X-XI : the strategy of Milton's structure / Cheryl H. Fresch
  • The banqueting scene in Paradise regained : Milton's temptation to the anti-Puritan appetite / Alinda Sumers.